Re: Gnus and qmail maildir format

[fdc@cliwe.ping.de (Frank D. Cringle)]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
>>>>>> On 05 Aug 1997, Jason R Mastaler said:
>
>  Jason> [...]  I'm not sure whether support for Maildir is built into
>  Jason> Gnus yet, but I would guess no based on what I've read. [...]
>
>If I understand correctly, the difference perceived by a user is that
>qmail does not write mbox style files but instead writes one file per
>message in a directory.

Qmail's suggested default configuration delivers into a Mailbox (mbox)
file in the user's home directory.  You can request delivery to a
Maildir instead, but that does not seem to be much use for gnus users.
I just let qmail put new mail into ~/Mailbox and tell gnus to pick up
the mail from there:

  (setq nnmail-spool-file "/home/fdc/Mailbox")

I guess it would be more secure to avoid mbox format, by having qmail
put new stuff in ~/Maildir/ and writing a gnus function to snarf it
out of there.

I don't see much to be gained by trying to get qmail and gnus to
cooperate by using the same directory for delivery and storage.

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