From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11859 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: 06 Aug 1997 12:49:26 +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 1035151500 406 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:05:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:05:00 +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 IAA08479 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:30:08 -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 KAA24988 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:25:54 -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 ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:36:03 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3122 invoked by uid 504); 6 Aug 1997 13:36:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3117 invoked from network); 6 Aug 1997 13:36:00 -0000 Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (193.100.14.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 1997 13:35:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7422 invoked by uid 10); 6 Aug 1997 13:35:28 -0000 Original-Received: from cliwe.ping.de by lilly.ping.de with UUCP (rmail-0.1); 6 Aug 1997 13:35:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6242 invoked by uid 150); 6 Aug 1997 10:49:27 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of 06 Aug 1997 03:23:42 -0700 Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11859 Russ Allbery writes: >Frank D Cringle writes: >> 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. > >Disagree strongly, particularly if you're having your mail delivered to >you over NFS. The main reason why I'd like to have maildir support in >Gnus directly is to avoid the body quoting of lines beginning with From; Agreed. That would be an advantage. >in the meantime, the following works fine: > >;; Since I'm using a qmail maildir to store incoming mail, we need to call >;; maildir2mbox before trying to fetch new mail. >(add-hook 'nnmail-pre-get-new-mail-hook > (lambda () (call-process "/var/qmail/bin/maildir2mbox" nil nil))) maildir2mbox quotes From. Your method wins if $HOME is NFS mounted. Otherwise it's equivalent to ~/Mailbox delivery. -- Frank Cringle, fdc@cliwe.ping.de voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357