From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37703 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jody Klymak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NNDiary, a diary backend for Gnus. Date: 10 Aug 2001 17:27:00 -0700 Organization: Ocean Mixing Group, Oregon State U. Message-ID: References: <3d6z5z8c.fsf@oce.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173073 15246 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:04:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:04:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19423 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2001 00:27:17 -0000 Original-Received: from dnsman.oce.orst.edu (128.193.64.33) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2001 00:27:17 -0000 Original-Received: from C1699372-A.mail.oce.orst.edu (c1699372-a.crvlls1.or.home.com [65.12.163.179]) by dnsman.oce.orst.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA01233; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2001 02:04:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) Original-Lines: 55 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37703 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Jody Klymak writes: > > > ;; with an appropriate entry in .procmail... > > (setq nndiary-mail-sources '((imap :server "imap.oce.orst.edu" > > :mailbox "mail/nndiary" :dontexpunge t))) > > > > Doesn't this move things from the IMAP server into a local group? Yes, but ":dontexpunge" leaves copies on the IMAP server. i.e. gnus reads them off imap.oce.orst.edu, nndiary-splits them, and then stores them in ~/News/diary/foo ~/News/diary/bar. Now they can be edited or deleted etc. The originals stay on the server, but gnus seems to be smart enough not to refetch them. > Or is it possible to tell nndiary to also store the nndiary:foo > groups on the IMAP server? I don't think so. That may be preferable, however. I'm guessing that what nndiary does is look through a group, message by message, and decide if any of them need to be set to "UNREAD". Does this require a separate backend? Why did nntodo get its own backend? Lets see: So far as I can tell: nndiary 1) Displays the summary in a different format. 2) Sorts by Schedule 3) Adds headers to new messages created in the group. 4) Marks messages meeting certain schedule criteria as unread when groups are queried. So, do these things require a backend? I'm guessing 1-3 don't. I don't understand gnus or nndiary well enough to know if 4 does. Message editing may be a major drawback if you use nnimap. Cheers, Jody PS, anyone else interested in an nndiary-to-diary converter? I'd like to relearn elisp and this sounds like fun (and not too much effort) -- Jody M. Klymak mailto:jklymak@oce.orst.edu College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sicences Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331