From: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: reading mail with Gnus
Date: 25 Jul 1996 14:15:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <byg26gr0js.fsf@math.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Allan Poindexter's message of Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:19:40 -0500
Allan Poindexter <allan@royal-oak.csc.ti.com> writes:
Him allan this is what you had
> (nnbabyl "mymail"
> (nnmail-spool-file nil)
This is (part of the doc string) for nnmail-spool-file
nnmail-spool-file's value is ...
[..]
Documentation:
Where the mail backends will look for incoming mail.
This variable is "/usr/spool/mail/$user" by default.
If this variable is nil, no mail backends will read incoming mail.
Notice the last line. So you disabled all incoming mail reading, which
is not what you want. If you have procmail style spool/inboxes only, then you
could just set this variable to 'procmail. (This is what I have and
what works, I don't read my normal mail with gnus)
i.e. in my gnus I have
(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/scratch/Mail/")
However you have a special case: your main MBOX it has no
corresponding spool file, but instead you have a seperate "inbox".
You could try the following
(setq nnmail-spool-file "~allan/mail/.inboxes/inbox")
and keeping
> (nnmail-use-procmail t)
to tell gnus to ALSO read the other procmail spool files. Make sure
all the other inboxes end in .nnbabyl
> (nnmail-procmail-directory "~allan/mail/.inboxes")
> (nnmail-procmail-suffix ".nnbabyl")
> (nnbabyl-mbox-file "~allan/mail/nnbabyl/NNBABYL")
> (nnbabyl-active-file "~allan/mail/nnbabyl/active")
This looks alright. The only difficulty left is making sure that all
mail froim the spool-file, i.e. ~allan/mail/.inboxes/inbox gets into
the nnbabyl-mbox-file, using the right nnmail-split-boxes seeting. But
I don't know to do that.
Jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-25 12:15 UTC|newest]
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1996-07-25 4:19 Allan Poindexter
1996-07-25 12:15 ` Jan Vroonhof [this message]
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