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
next prev parent 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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