From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5903 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can I specify a spool file to read from? Date: 12 Apr 1996 05:16:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <199604111615.MAA06092@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146439 1736 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA27781 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:38:43 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (4867@hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:16:09 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:16:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5903 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5903 "Edward J. Sabol" writes: > Well, I still think a group parameter is the natural user interface for > setting something like this. But if you think that would be inefficient, then > I'm willing to accept some alternative scheme (add a new variable named > `nnmail-spool-alist'? or better yet overload `nnmail-spool-file' to accept an > alist?). However, I feel strongly that there needs to be some intelligent way > of saying which spool file(s) to get new mail from for a specific group. This > method should allow one to specify multiple spool files for any group. It > should allow the spool files to be named whatever you want and be located > whereever you want to put them. The current set of Gnus variables just > doesn't give the user enough freedom in this regard. I think an alist of group/file pairs would be better. `nnmail-group-spool-alist'? I've added this to the Red Gnus todo list. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."