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From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Backend-specific nnmail-spool-file?
Date: 08 Dec 1998 09:42:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lthfv6ae5s.fsf@asfast.com> (raw)

[ This is an auto-generated, courtesy copy of a message that I've
  also posted to the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup. ]

I'm using pgnus-0.65 under XEmacs-21.2.beta4.

I would like to do my email splitting outside of Gnus and Emacs.  This
would result in a group of mail spool files that I would need to check
from within Gnus.  I want to use the `nnml' backend, and I want to
create a separate backend instance for each of these spool files.

Is it possible to specify a different `nnmail-spool-file' for each
backend instance?  The Info documentation for pgnus-0.65 seems to
say otherwise:

  Mail Backend Variables 
  ---------------------- 
 
     These variables are (for the most part) pertinent to all the various 
  mail backends. 

  [ ... ]

  `nnmail-spool-file' 
       The backends will look for new mail in this file.  If this 
       variable is `nil', the mail backends will never attempt to fetch 
       mail by themselves.  [ ... ]

This seems to imply that I can only use one instance of the variable
`nnmail-spool-file' for any given Gnus session, but perhaps I'm mis-
interpreting what is being said here.

I also understand that `nnmail-spool-file' might also be a list, but
my understanding is that all the files in that list are searched for
email, irrespective of which email backend is being used.  What I want
is for each `nnml' backend instance to look at a completely different
mail spool file.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com


             reply	other threads:[~1998-12-08 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-08 14:42 Lloyd Zusman [this message]
1998-12-08 15:20 ` David S. Goldberg
1998-12-08 15:37   ` Lloyd Zusman
1998-12-08 15:42 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-08 16:42   ` Lloyd Zusman
1998-12-08 23:12     ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-10  4:25       ` Lloyd Zusman
1998-12-10 12:52         ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-10 14:08           ` Lloyd Zusman
1998-12-13  2:07     ` Justin Sheehy
1998-12-13  3:08       ` Lloyd Zusman
1998-12-13  4:15         ` Justin Sheehy

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