Re: Splitting, crossposts, duplicates, the universe, and everything.

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
    Lloyd> (1) Do not cause all of the email that goes to the various
    Lloyd> addresses to end up in the same mail spool file; rather,
    Lloyd> allow each piece of email to reside in the mail spool file
    Lloyd> corresponding to the user to which it is sent.  For
    Lloyd> example, in the case of my sample `To:' line ...

procmail, mailagent or (I think) deliver will do this for you.

    Lloyd> (2) Cause Gnus to somehow (???) get its `nnml' email from
    Lloyd> each of these four spool files, each one feeding a
    Lloyd> different `nnml' mailbox.  I would also want to perform a
    Lloyd> separate splitting procedure on each of these four spool
    Lloyd> files, to do the higher-granularity splitting that will be
    Lloyd> necessary.

Gnus will easily do this for you.  The following in my ~/.gnus.el

(setq nnml-directory "~/nnml/"
      nnmail-use-procmail t
      nnmail-spool-file 'procmail
      nnmail-procmail-directory "~/.incoming/")

makes things Just Work.

For the record, I don't do *any* splitting within Gnus.  It all
happens beforehand.

-- 
Stephen
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