Re: Using different backends

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I'd suggest reconfiguring procmail so that messages destined for
>> nnmaildir are delivered directly to your nnmaildir groups (maildirs)
>> by procmail.  (That's safe with nnmaildir, but not other backends.)
>
> Ok, but then I need to use duplicate suppresion in procmail and not in
> Gnus since nnmaildir does not support it.

Currently, yes.

>> It's generally not useful to Have more than one server do
>> splitting, because whichever one does it first will get all the
>> mail.
>
> So, this is broken by design ;-).

Right.

>> Along with the above change, I think you should remove get-new-mail
>> for nnmaildir and explicitly add (nnml-get-new-mail nil) for nnml.
>
> And then I could use nnmaildir and nnfolder in parallel.  But I fear
> there's no possibility to use all three in parallel with getting new
> mail?  What a pity...

What do you mean?  You don't want to split any mail into nnml groups,
right?  So add (nnml-get-new-mail nil) to that select method.  Then,
if you also reconfigure procmail, you'll no longer want to split mail
into nnmaildir groups (not in Gnus, anyway, since it's already done by
procmail), so you remove (get-new-mail t) from that select method.
Then everything will work the way you want (modulo duplicate
suppression): nnmaildir gets the appropriate messages from procmail;
nnml gets no messages; nnfolder gets the appropriate messages from
procmail+Gnus splitting.


paul