From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46267 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Questions about gnus Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:10:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200208262122.g7QLMNxU008098@cordelia.lcs.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030453877 8955 127.0.0.1 (27 Aug 2002 13:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17jg7n-0002K4-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:11:15 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17jg7c-0000Un-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:11:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA10606 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:11:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10649 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2002 13:10:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10644 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2002 13:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from lovely.amdocs.com (204.151.97.17) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 13:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from amdocs.com (speedy1.amdocs.com [204.151.97.67]) by lovely.amdocs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22235; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:10:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from YAIRFR02 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amdocs.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27550; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:07:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Xiaowei Yang In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:38:39 +0200") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46267 On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:38:39 +0200,=20 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Gnus normally doesn't like it if you use other tools behind its > back. If you use the nnmh backend (slow!), you have the highest > chance of it working. It was working when I tried it (several years ago). nnmh was designed for that sort of thing. > I think in that case, you only need to be > aware of the following: > > * If you manipulate messages behind Gnus' back, the Gnus-internal > marks will not travel with the messages. The marks functionality in nnmh is more limited because of that reason. > * If you EVER reuse message numbers (eg, by deleting the last msg in > a folder and then putting a new message into the folder which then > gets the same number as the previously-deleted message), then Gnus > will get REALLY REALLY confused. If the previous message was read, > then Gnus will think the new message is read, and so on. > > DON'T DO THAT. Setting nnmail-keep-last-article to t will take care of it from gnus' side.= =20 You might want to set nnmh-be-safe