saving all incoming and outgoing mail in the same nnfolder

saving all incoming and outgoing mail in the same nnfolder

[lantz moore]

for a couple years now, i've been saving all my outgoing mail (using
default archiving method) and incoming mail (using nnfolder and a procmail
rule).  yesterday i had the bright idea (why it took me so long i have no
idea) to save both incoming and outgoing mail in the same nnfolder.  this
seems to be working rather nicely, except that i seem to randomly lose
incoming messages.  i cannot seem to repeat it no matter what i try.

so, i guess i have two questions:
1) has anyone else seen behavior like this (pgnus v.33)?
b) am i a moron for archiving this way?  is there a better way archive
   incoming/outgoing messags, other than using a bcc back to myself
   instead of a gcc?

thanks.

-- 
lantz moore, contigo software                              lmoore@contigo.com

Re: saving all incoming and outgoing mail in the same nnfolder

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> lantz moore <lantz_moore@contigo.com> writes:

  > for a couple years now, i've been saving all my outgoing mail
  > (using default archiving method) and incoming mail (using nnfolder
  > and a procmail rule).

Is procmail writing the files that Gnus is reading?  I.e. if
~/Mail/foo is the file for nnfolder:foo, does procmail write to that
very same file?

Don't do that!

Read up about nnmail-use-procmail and nnmail-procmail-directory and
nnmail-procmail-suffix instead.

kai
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