Re: Can I specify a spool file to read from?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Shane Holder <holder@dnshost.rsn.hp.com> writes:

> In short what I want is the ability to put a spool file, or list of
> spool files in the group parameters.
> 
> I have multiple spool files in a directory specified by
> nnmail-procmail-directory, that are generated by procmail.  With the way
> gnus currently works I have to have a final rule that sends mail not handled
> by previous rules to that directory as a file mail.misc.spool.
> Instead of the mail going mail.misc.spool, I would like it to go to
> /usr/spool/mail/holder. This doesn't won't work because it's not in
> the nnmail-procmail-directory, and doesn't end with .spool, so my
> misc.mail group can't find it.  If I was able to tell the misc.mail
> group to read from /usr/spool/mail/holder, and ignore
> nnmail-procmail-directory/misc.mail.spool my problems would be solved.

If you have just

(setq nnmail-split-methods '(("mail.misc" "")))

and

(setq nnmail-spool-file "/usr/spool/mail/holder")

then you'll get the effect you're looking for, I think.

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