From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12579 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: future wishes - ACAP and LDAP support Date: 12 Oct 1997 15:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19970930184007.48935@redwood.math.gatech.edu> 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 1035152090 4520 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA20850 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:09:43 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15258 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 11:01:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1520 invoked by uid 504); 12 Oct 1997 15:13:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1517 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1997 15:13:18 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 1997 15:13:17 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (larsi@xyplex20.uio.no [129.240.154.40]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:13:10 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id RAA18360; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:14:21 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Paul Franklin's message of "05 Oct 1997 10:02:27 -0700" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.13/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > So I might have this in my nnml server definition: > > (nnmail-spool-methods > (simple "~/Gnus/outgoing") > (vmpop "pop.cs.washingon.edu:110:pass:paul:*")) Yes, that's a good idea for a syntax. Perhaps (nnmail-spool-methods (mbox "~/Gnus/outgoing" :move-function "movemail") (pop :server "pop.cs.washingon.edu" :port 110 :password ask :user "paul" :protocol apop)) would be clearer, though. It would be quite extendable, in any case. > Then, of course, there's backwards compatibility. I propose not > making things strictly backwards compatible, instead making things > work how novice users probably expect, and forcing expert users to > possibly do some work. A server would only use nnmail-spool-file if > all of these apply for that server: > > * The server is the first mail server in the list of > (cons native-server secondary-servers) > * nnmail-get-new-mail is t > * nnmail-spool-file is well-defined > * nnmail-spool-methods is not defined Hm. I think `nnmail-spool-file' should override `nn*-spool-methods' (or whatever). So users with more complex needs would set `nnmail-spool-file' to nil to use the server-specific spool methods. `nnmail-spool-file' would be extended to support the new syntax, though. A related note -- setting server variables is kinda tricky at the moment, so I think I'll add a setter function for these: (nnoo-set SERVER VARIABLE VALUE) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen