From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40666 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: maildir - whats the skinny? Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 01:23:07 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176183 2187 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22564 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 09:53:43 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 09:53:43 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Apki-0006bJ-00; Mon, 03 Dec 2001 03:51:08 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Dec 2001 03:50:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA22499 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:50:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20448 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2001 09:50:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20432 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 09:50:46 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 09:50:46 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA67295; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 01:50:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB39oGP16679; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 01:50:16 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:44:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 23 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40666 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> If I have procmail writing to maildir and creating directories as >> needed, then writing the numbered messages under that directory. Do I >> need to tell gnus about teh subdirectory? > > You could also use nnmaildir to just read the maildirs directly. Paul pointed that out on a different forum. And I read thru the docu stuff on nnmaildir. Some things sound promising, like the point you raise but I couldn't really make heads or tails of it overall. It wasn't clear if gnus regular mail functions and goodies like the complex expiry and scoring etc applies to nnmaildir or not. The discription including always-marks, never-marks and the unusual expire dating things threw me for a loop. My whole point in trying to funnel an nntp feed into procmail and hence convert it to mail that gnus can turn into nnml groups is to access the nice stuff gnus can do with nnml groups. Wasn't at all clear if any of that also applies to nnmaildir.