From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20920 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: procmail and Gnus 0.74 ? Date: 02 Feb 1999 23:03:08 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d83shyer.fsf@ascend.com> References: <87vhhkxsgp.fsf@wsfs05.mckesson.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159126 20389 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:12:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA09342 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:01:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAB06014; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:01:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:01:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14334 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:01:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from fw-ext.ascend.com (fw-ext.ascend.com [198.4.92.5]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA09280 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:01:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from russet.ascend.com by fw-ext.ascend.com via smtpd (for sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) with SMTP; 3 Feb 1999 05:00:48 UT Original-Received: from wopr.eng.ascend.com (wopr.eng.ascend.com [206.65.212.178]) by russet.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA23460; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:01:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from meyering-net-28.eng.ascend.com (meyering-net-28.eng.ascend.com [192.168.11.28]) by wopr.eng.ascend.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA12700; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:00:30 -0800 Original-Received: by meyering-net-28.eng.ascend.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA27687; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:03:13 -0600 Original-To: Stephen Zander In-Reply-To: Stephen Zander's message of "02 Feb 1999 16:04:54 -0800" Original-Lines: 47 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070075 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.75) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20920 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20920 Stephen Zander writes: | >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: | Lars> Anyway, the directory fetching probably works better in | Lars> 0.75. | | Actually, no. I get no directory fetching at all with 0.75. The | folloing is the pertinent part of my ~/.gnus.el | | ;; | ;; Select method | ;; | (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "") | gnus-large-newsgroup nil | nnml-directory (concat gnus-directory "nnml/") | ;nnmail-use-procmail t | ;nnmail-spool-file 'procmail | ;nnmail-procmail-directory (concat gnus-directory ".incoming/") | mail-spool-file '((directory :path "~/News/.incoming/"))) | | Leaving the nnmail-* variables uncommented resulted in a backtrace | (which I can send if you want). From the manual I'd though the | mail-sppol-file spec above would have worked. Maybe that was because of these typos in the docs? Here's a patch: --- gnus.texi.~1~ Tue Feb 2 22:58:56 1999 +++ gnus.texi Tue Feb 2 22:59:37 1999 @@ -10091,7 +10091,7 @@ If you want to fetch mail both from your mail server, you'd say something like: @lisp -(setq mail-spool-file +(setq nnmail-spool-file '((file) (pop :server "pop3.mail.server" :password "secret"))) @@ -10100,7 +10100,7 @@ mail server, you'd say something like: Or, if you don't want to use any of the keyword defaults: @lisp -(setq mail-spool-file +(setq nnmail-spool-file '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/user-name") (pop :server "pop3.mail.server" :user "user-name"