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From: David Wuertele <dave-gnus@bfnet.com>
Subject: Re: three nnmaildir questions: naming, numbering, and splitting
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:26:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0lkj1oj.fsf@bfnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33cnc524i.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:40:39 -0500")

>> '((nnmaildir ""
>> (directory "~/mail/maildirs")
>> (create-directory ".")

Paul> That's broken.  Currently, create-directory and directory must
Paul> not be the same.  With your configuration, group creation and
Paul> deletion will break.  Other things might work ok.

So I have to create another directory, link all my maildirs into it,
and then call that create-directory?

Paul> (report-nnmaildir-group "nnmaildir:dave@example.com")

(pgname "nnmaildir:dave@example.com" max 5398 min 2489 count 2485)

>> Third question: I'm also wondering wondering what the best strategy
>> for splitting is.
>> 
>> 1.  I want to continue to use nnmaildir as the select method
>> 
>> 2.  I don't want to split into different maildirs (since they don't do
>> crossposting elegantly).

Paul> What specific inelegance are you concerned about?

The fact that you can't deliver to two different maildirs without
making a file copy.  I want the attributes of the mail I've read to be
maintained between crosspostings.

Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 18:59 GroupLens (gnus-gl.el) Ted Zlatanov
2003-01-28 22:11 ` three nnmaildir questions: naming, numbering, and splitting David Wuertele
2003-01-28 22:40   ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-28 23:26     ` David Wuertele [this message]
2003-01-29  0:31       ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-29  7:29   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-01 16:22 ` GroupLens (gnus-gl.el) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-01 20:59   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-01 21:24     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-02 12:20       ` Alex Schroeder
2003-02-02 12:25         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-02 12:19     ` Alex Schroeder
2003-02-02  0:18   ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-02  0:24     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-02  1:34       ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-02-02  2:17         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-02  4:40           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-02-02 17:29       ` Raja R Harinath

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