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[ 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