From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49700 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wuertele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: three nnmaildir questions: naming, numbering, and splitting Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:26:52 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043796522 14724 80.91.224.249 (28 Jan 2003 23:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18df9l-0003pL-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:28:41 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18dfAQ-0004I2-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:29:23 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:30:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from rave.localdomain (adsl-66-127-57-249.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.127.57.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00421 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:30:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15486 invoked by uid 500); 28 Jan 2003 23:26:53 -0000 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:40:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49700 >> '((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