Re: maildir - whats the skinny?

["Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007770937.e3ec50@lickey.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> If I have procmail writing to maildir and creating directories as
> needed, then writing the numbered messages under that directory.  Do I
> need to tell gnus about teh subdirectory?

I believe the answer is yes -- I think it'd be a new mail source of
type "maildir".


> We might see ~/maildir/group1
>
> Then procmail might create maildir/group4.  Later maildir/group6 etc
> Do I need to tell gnus in advance about these names? Or does gnus know
> to look in maildir and recurse, the subdirectories.  Naming nnml
> groups after them?

The only way I know of for Gnus to automatically discover new groups
based on procmail output is with the "directory" style mail-source.  I
have this in my .gnus:

(setq mail-sources '((directory :path "~/.incoming")))

But this expects unix mbox files with a .spool suffix to be in that
dir, not maildirs.

I'm not sure if Gnus supports a similar thing with maildirs.  Last
time I investigated, I concluded that it didn't.


> The examples in gnus info:
>   Two example maildir mail sources:
>
>           (maildir :path "/home/user-name/Maildir/"
>                    :subdirs ("cur" "new"))
>
>           (maildir :path "/user@remotehost.org:~/Maildir/"
>                    :subdirs ("new"))

I believe the maildir mail source names a single mail folder.

-- 
matt