Gnus-5.7 with Qmail Mailbox and Maildir?

Gnus-5.7 with Qmail Mailbox and Maildir?

[Chris Shenton]

I recently switched from sendmail to qmail. In .gnus I tell gnus to
send using qmail with:

	(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-qmail)

I'm using the default UNIX-style "Mailbox" file, now in user home dirs
rather than /var/mail. I've persuaded Gnus (5.7) to read this like by
adding:

	export MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox

to my .bashrc and it works fine. Is there a better, more Gnusy way to
do this? 

I anticipate changing from Mailbox to Maildir format in a while but
couldn't find any Info docs or place in the code which indicated this
was doable.  This seemed odd since the code knows about sending with
qmail. Am I missing something? A search of the archives turned up one
suggestion:

	(setq mail-sources '( (maildir) ))

but I couldn't find this variable in the code. Clues welcomed.

Thanks.

Re: Gnus-5.7 with Qmail Mailbox and Maildir?

[Kai Großjohann]

Chris Shenton <chris@Thanatos.Shenton.Org> writes:

> I anticipate changing from Mailbox to Maildir format in a while but
> couldn't find any Info docs or place in the code which indicated this
> was doable.

Can you wait until Gnus 5.8 comes out?  That will have the
mail-sources variable, with support for maildir.

kai
-- 
Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Gnus-5.7 with Qmail Mailbox and Maildir?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chris Shenton <chris@Thanatos.Shenton.Org> writes:

> 	(setq mail-sources '( (maildir) ))
> 
> but I couldn't find this variable in the code. Clues welcomed.

It's a variable in Pterodactyl Gnus.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen