Server instuctions / Server buffer

Server instuctions / Server buffer

[Harry Putnam]

Can a server be instructed to *not* scan for mail in the "server
buffer" description of an added server? 

I have one such server defined like so:
(nnml "mail2"
      (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
      (nnml-nov-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
      (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/Mail/active"))

Can I add a line here to cause this server *not* to look for mail?
IF so, what would the syntax be?

Re: Server instuctions / Server buffer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> (nnml "mail2"
>       (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
>       (nnml-nov-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
>       (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/Mail/active"))
> 
> Can I add a line here to cause this server *not* to look for mail?
> IF so, what would the syntax be?

        (nnml-get-new-mail nil)

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Re:[was] Server instuctions / Server buffer

[Harry Putnam]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > (nnml "mail2"
> >       (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
> >       (nnml-nov-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
> >       (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/Mail/active"))
> > 
> > Can I add a line here to cause this server *not* to look for mail?
> > IF so, what would the syntax be?
> 
>         (nnml-get-new-mail nil)

I thought this was the case...

What prompted me to ask this question was recent behavior I've
noticed that I thought might be related to adding two new nnml
servers.

The behavior is that gnus scans a bunch of directories when a "g" or
batch-fetch is done like so:

nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory...

These messages are repeated at least  24 times.

However, by adding the line:
(nnml-get-new-mail nil)

To both new nnml servers like so:
(nnml "mail2"
      (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
      (nnml-nov-directory "/mnt/pack/Mail/")
      (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/Mail/active")
      (nnml-get-new-mail nil))

Has had no effect on it.

What else may cause this?  I have:
(setq primary-inbox-list (list "/var/spool/mail/reader"))

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