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Subject: Re: procmail/gnus problem?
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On 06 Nov 2000, Nick Papadonis wrote:

> This brings up the question, why does the FAQ say to insert the
> following in the startup file? :
> (setq
>  gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
>  nnmail-spool-file 'procmail
>  nnmail-procmail-directory "~/incoming/"
>  nnmail-delete-incoming t
> )

This was correct until Gnus 5.7.  Sometime in the 5.8 development
cycle, mail-sources.el was introduced.  Maybe the FAQ is out of date?

Where did you find the FAQ?  I just looked in the current version in
the Gnus info file, but didn't find anything.

kai
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