From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11319 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason R Mastaler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: TODO idea: Date: 09 Jun 1997 20:58:20 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151048 29580 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23845 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:50:50 -0700 Original-Received: from spork.callamer.com (root@spork.callamer.com [199.74.141.2]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23098 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:51:05 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by spork.callamer.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11033 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:50:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 AAA25651 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:49:26 -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, 10 Jun 1997 06:45:41 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17253 invoked by uid 504); 10 Jun 1997 02:58:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17250 invoked from network); 10 Jun 1997 02:58:58 -0000 Original-Received: from brickbat9.mindspring.com (207.69.200.12) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Jun 1997 02:58:58 -0000 Original-Received: from ashanti.mastaler.com (ip28.albuquerque.nm.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.185.28]) by brickbat9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21890 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:58:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jason@localhost) by ashanti.mastaler.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10424; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:58:21 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Wesley Hardaker's message of "09 Jun 1997 10:39:13 +0200" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/XEmacs 19.15 Original-Lines: 20 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1709 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11319 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11319 Wesley Hardaker writes: > Well, the problem is that I have gnus incorperate spool messages every > 15 minutes or so. This means, there are two places with new mail: the > ..spool files and the actually nnml directory. Now, I've been wanting > to write a nnmlmh backend for a long time, but haven't had the time. > This would combine nnml and nnmh backends so that it would essentially > be a nnml that would additionally save a .mhsequence file to update > the unseen sequence (which is how mh marks new messages. That way you > can do a 'scan +ding unseen' to see everything in the ding group you > haven't read yet with gnus. Hence, you can than use a biff type > program to use this information. As is now, there is no way outside > of emacs to figure out what has been read or unread in a nnml group > (easily that is)... Is it necessary to write a new backend? Why not just code the unseen sequences functionality into nnmh and optionally, nnml? Jason R. Mastaler jason@mastaler.com