From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31600 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nov and procmail compatability? Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:14:21 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167993 15059 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEEAD0520 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 04:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAC03911; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 03:15:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jul 2000 03:14:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA28477 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 03:14:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD92D0520 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 04:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id KAA13060; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:14:22 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA17155; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:14:22 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id KAA24660; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:14:21 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: Stan Norton In-Reply-To: Stan Norton's message of "02 Jul 2000 00:17:48 -0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 35 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31600 Stan Norton 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 -- I like BOTH kinds of music.