Re: best setup for qmail and gnus

[Carsten Leonhardt <leo@arioch.oche.de>]

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dave-mlist@bfnet.com writes:

> I want to keep qmail separating my mail --- I get mail addressed to
> dave-<something>@bfnet.com and qmail is smart enough to separate that
> into a Maildir called ~/Mail/<something>/Maildir.
> 
> Next, I want gnus to slurp the mail out of Maildir.  Here is my
> current test setup:
> 
> (setq mail-sources '((maildir :path "/home/dave/Mail/test/Maildir/new")))
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "private"))
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods nil)
> 
> Here are my questions:
> 
> 0.  Can anyone out there using qmail and gnus send me thier config?
> 
> 1.  What use is the string "private" in the gnus-select-method?
> 
> 2.  Should I set mail-sources to a function that looks for
>     ~/Mail/*/Maildir and returns a list of (maildir) sources with
>     their various paths, or is there a better way?

I subscribe to every mailing list with a unique mailaddress. I then
forward the mail from there to one Maildir, so that all mail sits in a
single place. All mail got stamped by qmail with a "Delivered-To:"
header on the way, which I use to split them up again.

Below is an example splitting rule plus the parts of my Gnus setup
relating to mail handling.

leo


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;;;
;;; split mail using nnmail-split-fancy
;;;
(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy)

(setq nnmail-split-fancy
      (list '| ;top
	    ;;; mailgroup splitting using extra addresses
	    ;;; for each list / mailgroup

	    ;; Debian Announcements
	    ;; [debian-announce@lists.debian.org]
	    (list "Delivered-To"
		  "leo-lists/debian-announce@arioch.oche.de"
		  "list.debian-announce")
[and on and on and on]

;;;
;;; Read Mail in Gnus
;;;
(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-qmail)
(setq message-qmail-inject-program "/usr/sbin/qmail-inject")
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods `((nnml "")
				      (nnfolder "archive")))

(setq nnmail-spool-file '((maildir)))
(setq nnmail-message-id-cache-length 10000)
(setq nnmail-treat-duplicates 'warn)
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming nil)
; Put the "Incoming*" files here
(setq mail-source-directory "~/Mail/Incoming/")

;;; disable "builtin" nnfolder+archive, so my own nnfolder+archive
;;; will not conflict with it
(setq gnus-message-archive-method nil)

;;;
;;; Archive mails in nnfolders
;;;
(setq nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archives")
(setq nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)