Re: nov and procmail compatability?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Stan Norton <stan@stannorton.com> writes:

> The code that I use to configure splitting by procmail (scarfed from
> some post years ago) suggests that " nnml-nov-is-evil t" should be
> set. I don't understand why.

This depends on how you do your procmail stuff.  Here's how you
_should_ use it:

Tell procmail to write messages for the nnml:foo.bar group into the
file ~/procmail/foo.bar.in, and tell Gnus to fetch mail from that
directory, like so:

(add-to-list 'mail-sources
             '(directory :path "/home/jrl/procmail/"
                         :suffix ".in"))

Here's how you should _not_ use it:

Tell procmail to write messages for the nnml:foo.bar group into the
directory ~/Mail/foo/bar/ (or ~/Mail/foo.bar/, depending on the
use-long-filenames setting), numbering files as it goes along.

But if you do use the second method, then it is possible to set
nnml-nov-is-evil to t to make it slightly less horrible.  You can also
tell Gnus to never delete the last message to make another epsilon of
difference.  But you should really use the first method.

Why is the second method bad?  Because Gnus gets really really REALLY
upset when some other program messes with its files (in ~/Mail/).
Don't do that.

kai
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