From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37623 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: 09 Aug 2001 00:20:50 -0700 Organization: Ocean Mixing Group, Oregon State U. 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 1035173003 14806 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11563 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2001 07:21:04 -0000 Original-Received: from dnsman.oce.orst.edu (128.193.64.33) by gnus.org with SMTP; 9 Aug 2001 07:21:04 -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 AAA17418 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Gnus Beta Testers In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Wed, 08 Aug 2001 18:12:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) Original-Lines: 54 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37623 Hello Didier and everyone else, So far I really like nndiary. It is seems to be working quite smoothly, and I think it'll be a great help. Some comments: 1) As an nnimap user, and a bit of a gnus ignoramus, I ran into a fair bit of confusion using nndiary-mail-sources. The documentation was a little sparse for me, but maybe that is because I've never tried nnml. In particular I had a chicken and egg problem. I had a message in ~/.nndiary, with the appropriate X-Diary-* headers and everything. I'd also set gnus-secondary-select-methods. But I could not fetch into any nndiary group since the no nndiary group existed yet. Finally I stumbled upon copying a message (any old message from my IMAP groups using B-c) into "nndiary:diary", and then I was in business. However it took a while to figure this out. Good learning experience for me, but maybe this (or whatever is the correct way to get started) could be added to the documentation? Put another way, the docs say "3/ ... go customize the 'nndiary group.", but I did not have a nndiary group to customize, and my usual "U" to subscribe only gave me "Invalid group (no such directory)" if I tried to enter the group. As a side note, this works fine along with procmail on my imap server (yes, I was starting to understand mail-sources at this point): (setq nndiary-mail-sources '((imap :server "imap.oce.orst.edu" :mailbox "mail/nndiary" :dontexpunge t))) 2) There is a typo in the doc-string. On line 98 "nndiary-split-method" should read "nndiary-split-methods". 3) Is it possible to set the "reminders" interval for each diary entry individually? i.e. add a header that could be either: "X-Diary-Reminder: 5 day 2 hour 30 minute" or "X-Diary-Reminder: *" if the user wanted to use the default. I can imagine things like birthdays that I'd want to be reminded about many days in advance, and other things like weekly meetings that I only need to hear about 30 minutes before hand. Umm, I'll look at it, but I suspect my lisp skills aren't up to the challenge. Thanks again. This is a very nice package. I appreciate all the effort that went into it! Cheers, Jody -- Jody M. Klymak mailto:jklymak@oce.orst.edu College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sicences Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331