From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42351 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml fetching mail, unwanted Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:10:14 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177600 10827 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:20:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8876 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2002 12:11:53 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2002 12:11:53 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16SdHZ-0003An-00; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:10:37 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:10:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA28432 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:10:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8867 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2002 12:10:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8862 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2002 12:10:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO slipsten.extundo.com) (195.42.214.241) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Jan 2002 12:10:19 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by slipsten.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0LCAED12266; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:10:15 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: slipsten.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Nicolas Kowalski In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42351 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.