Re: various independent "mail servers" and the nnml backend

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <David> writes:

    David> Uwe Brauer <uwe_brauer@mat.ucm.es> writes:
    >> I just deleted all my .newsrc newsrc.eld files and restarted gnus, I
    >> add a nnml server, so the corresponding buffer looks like (nnml
    >> "NNML")
    >> 
    >> However independent whether I edit the server in order to obtain
    >> something like this
    >> 
    >> (nnml "NNML-Archive" (nnml-directory "/home/oub/Mail/NNML-Archive"))

    David>  Out of curiousity, why  do you want two separate nnml
    David> backends?  Within a  single backend, you could create,
    David>  say,  nnml:archive.*  and nnml:current.*   groups and
    David> achieve segregation that way.

Right  in general, but  the problem is  the *respooling*. If I do
respooling in  a group via  `B r' then it asks  for a  server and
then  puts  the   messages  in  the   *mail.misc* group   of _that_
server.  If I want my  mails from the pop3 server  end  up in the
nnml backend, and have just one server, these mails end up also
in *mail.misc*

[snip]


    David> From what I  can tell, your mail   backend (the thing  that
    David>  sucks     in mail as  per    mail-sources)  must be either
    David> gnus-select-method or one of gnus-secondary-select-methods;
    David> the backend that   gets the "blessed" group  names  without
    David>  prefixes is  gnus-select-method  (or you can   set that to
    David> nnnil); and  otherwise  it's  fine for  all of  your  other
    David> backends to be in neither list  and subscribe to individual
    David>  foreign groups   from   them.  If  you   have to  do  some
    David> configuration to make  the backend work  it might be useful
    David>   to  put   into   gnus-secondary-select-methods too,   but
    David> otherwise subscribing to nntp+my.news.server:gnu.emacs.gnus
    David> seems to work just fine.

I am not sure I understand that explanation.
My setting so far has been

    -  My first method, via gnus-select-method is nnnil 

    - then via gnus-secondary-select-methods  I have specified my
      nnimap, and nntp servers 

But it seems also to work via
    -  My first method, via gnus-select-method is nnnil 

    - set the nnimap and nntp server, by entering the server
    buffer
    then use `a' and  `e'.


Uwe