From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19829 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backend-specific nnmail-spool-file? Date: 12 Dec 1998 23:15:04 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158108 13633 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA22998 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:15:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA32017; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:15:23 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:15:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18796 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:15:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA22977 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:15:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine.mitre.org [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20998 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:15:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA05828; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:15:04 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "12 Dec 1998 22:08:41 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 53 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19829 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19829 Lloyd Zusman writes: > Justin Sheehy writes: > > It is quite trivial to receive mail for multiple addresses at one > > machine and have them all be read by the same user without doing > > anything nearly as silly as what you suggest. > Of course. I can think of several ways to do it. I have already done > this via procmail, via mailagent, via my own homegrown IMAP and POP3 > Perl scripts, and via my own homegrown IMAP Python script I didn't say that you needed any special tools other than Gnus. > However, the question I originally posted has to do with whether it > can be done solely within Gnus, without any outside help. Certainly. One simple example: Use Gnus as 'someuser'. Point mail destined for 'otheruser' at someuser's account, via either a sendmail alias or a .forward or some such thing. Have Gnus filter based on the To header. > If the answer is "no", then I will just make use of one of the other > approaches I mentioned above. If the answer is "yes", then I'm trying > to figure out the best way to make it happen. The answer is, Yes, you can read mail destined for several different users all from within Gnus, without doing something as silly as running it as the root user. This is trivial. > And if you have something useful to contribute to this discussion, > then I would appreciate your input. If, however, all you want to do > is editorialize as to how silly you perceive the question to be, then > why bother cluttering up this thread in the mailing list with your > comments at all? One really ought to use the root account for administrative purposes only, and other user accounts for all user-like activities. I was trying to help you realize this. That was useful input, though you may not have decided to use it. If you ask a question that ought to receive a technical answer, people may answer with technical details. If you ask how to do something ridiculous, people will say "that's ridiculous, you shouldn't do that". -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.