From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40655 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: maildir - whats the skinny? Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:22:10 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878zcltaod.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176172 2096 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:56:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 5984 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 00:24:15 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 00:24:15 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Agsb-0004gV-00; Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:22:41 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:22:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA21013 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:22:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 5960 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2001 00:22:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5955 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 00:22:23 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (sigsegv@64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 00:22:23 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678EEEE37 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:22:21 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C570C14F for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:22:19 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 70B88C14D; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:22:17 -0700 (MST) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: Harry Putnam Mail-Followup-To: reader@newsguy.com, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:02:15 -0800") Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40655 Harry Putnam 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