Re: Backend-specific nnmail-spool-file?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

  > I would like to do my email splitting outside of Gnus and Emacs.
  > This would result in a group of mail spool files that I would need
  > to check from within Gnus.  I want to use the `nnml' backend, and
  > I want to create a separate backend instance for each of these
  > spool files.

Do you mean groups rather than backends?

If so, nnmail-use-procmail is your friend.  Also see
nnmail-procmail-directory and nnmail-procmail-suffix.  In a nutshell:

If nnmail-use-procmail is t and nnmail-procmail-directory is
"~/spool/" and nnmail-procmail-suffix is ".in", then Gnus puts all
mails from the file "~/spool/foo.bar.in" into the group
"nnml:foo.bar".  (It does not make a difference whether procmail wrote
these files, or Mailagent, or slocal, or something else, they just
need to be mbox format files.)

kai
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