Re: nndiary documentation bug

[Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> wrote:

> On Thu, May 03 2007, Holger Sparr wrote:
>
>> From (info "(gnus)Running NNDiary") : 
>>
>> ,----
>> |    In order to use `nndiary' in autonomous mode, you have several
>> | things to do:
>> | 
>> |    * Allow `nndiary' to retrieve new mail by itself.  Put the following
>> |      line in your `gnusrc' file:
>> | 
>> |           (setq nndiary-get-new-mail t)
>> `----
>>
>> This seems to be no longer true.
>>
>> By now, `nndiary-get-new-mail' is actually designed as a server
>> variable and should therefore be used like this:
>>
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nndiary "" 
>>                                                (nndiary-get-new-mail t))))
>
> I think Holger is right.  Didier, what do you think?


  I don't quite understand the "This seems to be no longer true." part,
as AFAICR, the design of nndiary-get-new-mail has never changed. I'm
actually reluctant to advertise this variable as a server one (although
technically, I guess it's possible to use it that way).

As explained in the doc, nndiary is not a traditionnal mail backend (you
would not use it for retrieving your emails), so if you want to use it
in its "autonomous" mode, you probably also have to customize
nndiary-mail-sources and nndiary-split-methods as well. This is not like
setting up one *and only one* mail backend as the preferred method for
getting mails.



> BTW, is there any reason _not_ to include (info "(gnus)Running
> NNDiary") in the stable branch (v5-10)?

  If nndiary is present in the stable branch, the whole "Email Based
Diary" node should be included in the doc. If it is not, I don't know
why.

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