From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12766 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me and my nnextern.. Date: 05 Nov 1997 13:58:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152245 5551 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29634 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:36:34 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17931 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:36:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id UAA09606 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:30:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 11151 invoked by uid 504); 5 Nov 1997 19:30:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11146 invoked from network); 5 Nov 1997 19:30:55 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex31.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.51) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 1997 19:30:54 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA08910; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:31:03 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Andy Eskilsson's message of "29 Oct 1997 10:33:42 +0100" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.13/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Well basically I have a program that fetches mail from you hotmail > account, and currently puts it into a normail mail folder (it is > easily modified for other output). You could just set `nnmail-spool-file' to wherever you stored the mail and let your mail backend slurp it in. > Well now comes the funny part, I would like to POST through hotmail > too, it is just a hack or two away ;-) > > Am I the only one who see a use of a nnextern backend?? So it is easy > (for us non-lispers) to hack an interface to for example supernews > mail, supernews (WREN) web reading news, sexzilla.com's webnews(yeah I > know, I only read it for alt.sex.furniture^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H), some > basic webboards! (Now that would be a hit, nnwebboard backend!) It's not clear to me what you want, really. We already have backends that communicate with external programs. nnweb, nntp and (soon) nnimap, to name a few. (I've just written nnlistserv which reads Majordomo (etc.) web archives.) All these use vastly different external interfaces, but deliver the same data to Gnus. What you seem to want is a backend that will allow you to write simple external programs that feed data to Gnus. My suggestion would simply be to write nntp-like interfaces, and just use nntp.el. If you feel that this is a too heavy protocol (it isn't, really; you just don't implement the "tricky" functions. GROUP, HEAD and ARTICLE is all that is required), then I would be open to adding a new, generic nnextern backend that talks the protocol you would like it to talk. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen