Re: new mail fetching doesn't work for us procmail heretics

[Hevard Fosseng <havard.fosseng@usit.uio.no>]

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> I split all of my mail using procmail.  Gnus splitting is powerful
> enough, but happens at the wrong time.  I like having my mail be
> sorted at arrival time, not when I decide to read it or at some
> arbitrary interval.
> 
> Under Gnusae previous to the last few pgnus, one can accomplish this with:
> 
> (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/Mail/incoming"
>       nnmail-use-procmail t
>       nnmail-procmail-suffix "")

I had a pretty similar setup, though I use nnfolder rather than nnml.

In 0.74, I use:

(setq nnmail-spool-file `((directory
			   :path "~/mail/spool/"
			   :match "[a-z]"
			   :suffix "")))

The :match keyword is to make sure that a call to DIRECTORY-FILES does
not match . and .. (movemail doesn't like being handled a directory).
This doesn't work in 0.74 since the :match keyword has been removed. I
get by by answering in the affirmative when movemail asks whether to
continue.



- Håvard Fosseng