From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Difference between nnmail- and gnus- variables?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:04:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtpys8uj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h7g6pfyw.fsf@codeisgreat.org>
Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:
>>
>>> I want to understand the nomenclature. What is the difference between
>>> ‘nnml-’ and similar ‘gnus-’ variables?
>>
>> In OO terms, nnmail.el can be thought of as an abstract parent class for
>> all backends belonging to the "store messages as files on disk" type of
>> server. It provides settings and functions that are used in common by
>> nnml, nnmbox, nnmaildir, etc.
>
> This clarifies a lot of things for me. Especially, it is now clear that
> this won’t work in my case. Because I am using IMAP.
nnimap mostly uses nnmail for its splitting functions, and it looks like
its expiry settings as well -- that's pretty much it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-03 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-03 11:26 Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-03 17:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-03 17:59 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-03 18:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-08-04 7:58 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-04 17:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-05 6:05 ` Pankaj Jangid
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