From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19825 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 21:07:11 -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 1035158105 13621 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:55:05 +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 VAA20076 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:07:51 -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 UAA31696; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:07:27 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:07:33 -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 UAA17964 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:07:25 -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 VAA20067 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:07:17 -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 VAA18649 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:07:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05740; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:07:11 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "08 Dec 1998 11:42:10 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 24 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19825 Lloyd Zusman writes: > my preferred way of doing this would be to have one spool file > called `/var/spool/mail/oneuser', another called > `/var/spool/mail/anotheruser', etc. ... i.e., no special suffixes. > Note that I would run Gnus as user `root', which is easy for me to > do from my personal Linux machine at home. Icky. You really ought to do things the right way, instead of treating your machine as if it was running some POS single-user operating system. 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. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.