From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11846 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fdc@cliwe.ping.de (Frank D. Cringle) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and qmail maildir format Date: 05 Aug 1997 21:47:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.103) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151490 357 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA01161 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:17:46 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA16837 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 17:13:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:09:44 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32440 invoked by uid 504); 5 Aug 1997 20:09:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32437 invoked from network); 5 Aug 1997 20:09:40 -0000 Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (193.100.14.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Aug 1997 20:09:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14944 invoked by uid 10); 5 Aug 1997 20:09:28 -0000 Original-Received: from cliwe.ping.de by lilly.ping.de with UUCP (rmail-0.1); 5 Aug 1997 20:09:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14965 invoked by uid 150); 5 Aug 1997 19:47:01 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 05 Aug 1997 19:22:55 +0200 Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11846 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11846 Kai Grossjohann 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. -- Frank Cringle, fdc@cliwe.ping.de voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357