Re: Problems with getting new mail at any particular level.

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, ShengHuo ZHU wrote:

> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> 
>> > I see.  I think if you hit `1 g' and the only level-1 group is
>> > nnml:foo, then Gnus will only look at ~/.spool/foo.
>> 
>> I think this is correct. I stepped through debugging
>> mail-sources-fetch and this was the behavior I observed.
> 
> Probably, (setq nnmail-scan-directory-mail-source-once t) helps.

Yes! I see that the documentation mentions this variable. I was never
really sure what 

,----[ gnus.texi ]
| Setting @code{nnmail-scan-directory-mail-source-once} to non-nil force
| Gnus to scan the mail source only once.
`----

means. Perhaps a tiny patch is in order?

Index: gnus.texi
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/gnus.texi,v
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diff -u -r6.56 gnus.texi
--- gnus.texi	2001/03/03 11:18:39	6.56
+++ gnus.texi	2001/03/14 15:56:08
@@ -11284,8 +11284,9 @@
 @item directory
 Get mail from several files in a directory.  This is typically used when
 you have procmail split the incoming mail into several files.  Setting
-@code{nnmail-scan-directory-mail-source-once} to non-nil force Gnus to
-scan the mail source only once.
+@code{nnmail-scan-directory-mail-source-once} to non-nil forces Gnus to
+scan the mail source only once. This is particularly useful if you want
+to scan mail groups at a specified level.
 
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Nevin