Re: nnml fetching mail, unwanted

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:

> > Gnus has been fetching mail automatically from /var/mail/jrl for so
> > many years -- do you think it's a good idea to turn that off now?
> 
> Gnus had no way to see that my IMAP inbox is the same than
> /var/mail/kowalski, OK. I had no way (other than posting to this list)
> to known that Gnus would fetch mail automatically when using some mail
> backends, without mail-sources.

The `nnmail-spool-file' variable is mentioned in the manual in the 
sections about mail sources.  Perhaps you can suggest improved text?  I 
guess it could say that the default for `nnmail-spool-file' actually IS to 
fetch mail from your local mail spool.  Hm.

> What I think is that of course Gnus should keep its years old
> behaviour, and that a bit of documentation in the IMAP node should
> mention it. 

Can you suggest text?  I'm afraid I don't understand what this has to do
with IMAP at all, the problem (as I understood it) was that Gnus fetched
mail from /var/spool/mail when you added a nnml backend.