Re: Patch submission: Allow group-local mail sources for nnmail

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Jan 04 2008, Michael Sperber wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Could you add an example of a mail-source use to the manual, as
>> both the actual setting you'd use, and what it does?
>
> Like so?

Clearer than before.

> --snip--
> The @code{mail-sources} is global for all mail groups.  You can specify
> an additional mail source for a particular group by including the
> @code{group} mail specifier in @code{mail-sources}, and setting a
> @code{mail-source} group parameter (@pxref{Group Parameters}) specifying
> a single mail source.  When this is used, @code{mail-sources} is
> typically just @code{(group)}; the @code{mail-source} parameter for a
> group might look like this:
>
> @lisp
> (mail-source . (file :path "home/user/spools/foo.spool")
> (group)
> @end lisp

Missing ")" (in the first line?).

I don't understand the "(group)" here.  I would have thought "(group)"
must appear in the `mail-sources' variable, but not in the group
parameter.

> This means that the group's (and only this group's) messages will be
> fetched from the spool file @code{home/user/spools/foo.spool}.
> --snip--

This should probably read @samp{/home/user/spools/foo.spool} (absolute
file name and @samp{}). 

I think when using a `file' mail source in the group parameter, a
similar setup can already be achieved using a `directory' mail source
(though it doesn't allow fetching only a single source).

But you mentioned that you fetch from several IMAP folders to local
(nnml?) groups.  i.e. you need to add a full `imap' mail source for
each group or do you use some function or macro for the setup?

Bye, Reiner.
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