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From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Difference between nnmail- and gnus- variables?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:29:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h7g6pfyw.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v94msauy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:
>
>> I want to understand the nomenclature. What is the difference between
>> ‘nnml-’ and similar ‘gnus-’ variables?
>
> In OO terms, nnmail.el can be thought of as an abstract parent class for
> all backends belonging to the "store messages as files on disk" type of
> server. It provides settings and functions that are used in common by
> nnml, nnmbox, nnmaildir, etc.

This clarifies a lot of things for me. Especially, it is now clear that
this won’t work in my case. Because I am using IMAP.

> In this particular case, though, `nnmail-list-identifiers' is only used
> within `nnmail-remove-list-identifiers', which isn't actually called by
> Gnus anywhere, it's just provided as a function that you could
> potentially use as part of the `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
> See the "Washing Mail" section of the manual.
>
> The `gnus-' version, by contrast, gets called automatically as part of
> message display.

Thanks or all the information.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-03 11:26 Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-03 17:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-03 17:59   ` Pankaj Jangid [this message]
2021-08-03 18:04     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-04  7:58       ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-04 17:59         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-05  6:05           ` Pankaj Jangid

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