Using procmail with Gnus

Using procmail with Gnus

[Markus Dickebohm]

Recently I switched to procmail to filter some mails from high volume
mailinglists out of my inbox (I don't like my mail notifier do blink
every few seconds).

Personal mails and mails from some low volume lists stay in
/var/spool/mail/$USER.

I set "nnmail-use-procmail" and both the personal mails and the
procmail-filtered mails are incorporated to Gnus. That's exactly the
way I like it.

Today I started Gnus and to new nnml groups showed up. The reason was
that the procmail rule produced a file "ding.spool" while the nnml
group I used for this list via the nnml-split-method variable was
"Ding".

This behaviour shows that Gnus doesn't split the procmail filtered
mails again. I understand the manual that the variable
"nnmail-resplit-incoming" is responsible for that. Do I have to set
this variable or is it OK to get the procmail rule and
nnmail-split-method in sync?

  The manual says..
    "This also means that you probably don't want to set
     `nnmail-split-methods' either, which has some, perhaps, unexpected
     side effects."

This is not what I want, since the remaining mails in /var/spool/mail/$USER
should be split further by Gnus. Do I really have to decide to use
procmail _or_ nnmail-split-method or is it justified to get the best
from both?

Many thanks for any advice on this,
Markus

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Markus Dickebohm            E-Mail: m.dickebohm@uni-koeln.de
Physical Chemistry           WWW  : http://www.uni-koeln.de/~acp66/

Re: Using procmail with Gnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Markus Dickebohm <m.dickebohm@uni-koeln.de> writes:

> Today I started Gnus and to new nnml groups showed up. The reason was
> that the procmail rule produced a file "ding.spool" while the nnml
> group I used for this list via the nnml-split-method variable was
> "Ding".
> 
> This behaviour shows that Gnus doesn't split the procmail filtered
> mails again. I understand the manual that the variable
> "nnmail-resplit-incoming" is responsible for that. Do I have to set
> this variable or is it OK to get the procmail rule and
> nnmail-split-method in sync?

Whatever would be most convenient is what you should do.  If you want
Gnus to control what groups get created, you should set
`nnmail-resplit-incoming' to t.  If you want procmail to control that,
you shouldn't.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen