Re: problem with pop3 nnml and default dir

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

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

    David> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

[snip]


    David> From info://gnus/Mail+Folders, it looks like the select-method you
did find this node, but thanks anyhow
    David> want is


    David> (nnfolder "Pop3-GMX" (nnfolder-directory "/home/oub/Mail/POP3-GMX"))
ok


    >> Besides I now  start to use   the nnml backend. When I  respool
    >>  mail  from my nndoc  folders,  they end  up   in the mail/misc
    >> directory, since  this directory is  the default for respooling
    >> but of course if I would like the nnml backend for pop3 I would
    >>  end up in  a mess since the directories  for  the pop3 and the
    >> default nnml group are the same,

    David> What distinction are you trying to draw?  Gnus is perfectly
    David>  happy storing  mail in one   place from multiple different
    David> sources.  In fact, trying   to segregate mail you pick   up
    David> from multiple mail providers is a little tricky.

    David> So right now you  have an nnfolder secondary select method.
    David> When  Gnus starts, it  asks nnfolder to   pick up its mail,
    David> which  it    does by consulting  mail-sources.    Switching
    David> nnfolder  to nnml doesn't  change this  process, just where
    David> the mail is stored once it gets pulled off the POP server.
I would like to set 

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml (nnml-directory
"/home/oub/Mail/POP3-GMX"))
following your logic.

If this works fine. The point is I have a lot of vm folders which I
want now to convert to gnus folders with nnml backend as described in
the gnus documentation: 

    -  make a doc group

    -  repool the messages to a nnml group, when I do this it ends up
    in "~/Mail/mail/misc" since "~/Mail" is the default message
    directory. I changed that now to new value "~/Mail/MESSAGES"

Thanks 

Uwe