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Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> It is a consequence of the redaction of an article on 'how to get IMAP
> and Gnus play fairly together' on the Gnus French site [1]. There, I've
> been told not to talk about nnimap splitting feature because numerous
> people used to use procmail base filter to split their incoming
> mails.

I use both procmail and nnmail-split-fancy.

I normally read mail from a dial-up connection -- I don't want to
waste time and money downloading spam.  So I use procmail to send spam
to /dev/null on a permanently connected box.  I then use Gnus' native
splitting to sort my mail into different folders.

> In the same way, does procmail allows Gnus or any other MUA, to poll
> their mails directly

Yes.

> Sorry to bother but as long as nobody can show me the benefit at using
> procmail/fetmail stuff

fetchmail isn't really related to procmail.  fetchmail is a
replacement for pop3.el.  I use fetchmail because it's faster and has
more features than pop3.el.