From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85456 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus attempting to move mail from /var/spool/mail Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:35:14 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874ms0r89p.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87wq4x9t32.fsf@reader.local.lan> <878uhdqh2e.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420771043 4151 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2015 02:37:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 02:37:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33698@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 09 03:37:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PRD-0005Ti-GG for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:36:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PR4-0002l5-MQ; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:36:26 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PR3-0002kr-1M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:36:25 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PR2-000302-9z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:36:24 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PR0-0001Co-Sj for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:36:22 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9PQq-0003T2-7c for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:36:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E1P4VhrSgaHz2QR0ePUA5gT4K58= X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85456 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> On one host, I want to run gnus devoid of any attempt to collect in >> coming mail. > > You probably need to set the mail-sources variable to nil. It > defaults to reading from the spool file. See the Fetching Mail > section of the Gnus info docs. > > Dan Thanks, that did it. I have to say that it seems surprising to have to set a specific nil rather than having to set a particular method of retrieval. I mean, gnus main claim to fame is that it is the absolute best newsreader, bar none. It seems like it should not default to collecting mail. But not a big deal and many thanks for the good tip.