From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78294 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-sources versus select-methods Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:22:30 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87lizv5ro9.fsf@bifteki.lan> <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301675100 27857 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 16:25:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26602@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 01 18:24:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5h9b-00016o-G4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:24:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5h8d-0007fU-8X; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5h8b-0007f7-8i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:23:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5h8V-0008R9-P7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:23:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5h8U-0005hN-UB for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:23:47 +0200 Original-Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2973690wwi.5 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:23:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date :organization:message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=rJIzZWDPdn9UndcKQjYFTQ2Tzn3VPE1QSk4lJxECyXU=; b=MM4uwj5nh4M6CSddpWu2lotHH80Hb9a2T8wygIEJPsbV/28EO0ETGXc/m0W4cCciEK q1kN+tySqurXaPxoO6DXqShiJuxkECJB5q2quc9SYfC2HEPUzBahVMN6vUmVrbE3Ter3 YdPa+6GPHFuodtcQBTB/T3/ysr8BJHsL4RM8o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id :references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=xS7O+kzG4hOYA8LIG4UUKHRVFB97EiPnS/WXui74i3ULvZ1l8pl0+kc6e0odWExYOl DrF9qfaOjIu6ijfYyz1BwamU6g2paPWy0YCJELAMHGYuRIpieRjEu4Z3pE5/+I8Hdfrx fndSp9QpIRTKtNaw72kMvF8qRK0nhOtg2VDIw= Original-Received: by 10.227.157.68 with SMTP id a4mr4086087wbx.198.1301675020899; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from asus1015pem (175.Red-217-126-211.staticIP.rima-tde.net [217.126.211.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o6sm1360883wbo.54.2011.04.01.09.23.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from shamrock by asus1015pem with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5gCx-0005g8-NQ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:24:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> (Dave Goldberg's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:34:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78294 Archived-At: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes: >> Leonidas Tsampros writes: >>> Richard Riley writes: >>>> Undoubtedly an incredibly naive question but why would one use >>>> mail-sources over select-methods? >>>> > > One doesn't. They are two complementary things. > Hi, But one can. And I'm not clear what is best. One does not have to set up mail-sources. It can all be done in secondary methods - e.g see the nnimap select-method in the manual for gmail:- (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) > A backend is the entity from where Gnus reads email. You pick your backends > through select methods. Some back ends work by communicating directly with a > server, think nnimap, nntp. Others, such as nnml or nnfolder, look for mail on > the local system. In most cases, these backends are just directories of files. > The population of those directories can be done in a myriad of ways. If Gnus is > going to be doing the populating, the mail-sources specification is how you tell > Gnus to do it. Or via the select method/secondary select method as above. Or am I seriously confused here? thanks r.