From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11537 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason R Mastaler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: compatibility of nnml and MH Date: 09 Jul 1997 23:37:39 -0600 Message-ID: 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 1035151231 30934 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA12113 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:31:06 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA26785 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:28:23 -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 BAA26695 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:28:01 -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 ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 07:38:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15259 invoked by uid 504); 10 Jul 1997 05:38:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15254 invoked from network); 10 Jul 1997 05:38:00 -0000 Original-Received: from brickbat9.mindspring.com (207.69.200.12) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 1997 05:38:00 -0000 Original-Received: from ashanti.mastaler.com (ip48.albuquerque.nm.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.185.48]) by brickbat9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA07982 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jason@localhost) by ashanti.mastaler.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA15810; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:37:40 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.62/XEmacs 19.15 Original-Lines: 49 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1927 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11537 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11537 How compatibile is the nnml backend with MH and how uncompatible is it with MH? If I have a bunch of nnml groups and save articles from those groups to existing MH folders with `O h', do I have to worry that those saved articles are no longer MH compliant in some way because their origin was an nnml group? Or, does the origin not matter in this case since I used `O h' to save? `O h' Save the current article in mh folder format I'm not interested in reading existing nnml groups with MH or MH front-end, but I am interested in being able to manipulate saved articles from those nnml groups at a later date with MH and not run into problems. I hope I'm making sense here. Also, there seems to be conflicting ideas about the compatibility of nnml with other formats (such as MH). On one hand nnml is supposedly not at all compatible with other formats.. The manual says of nnml: The "nnml" spool mail format isn't compatible with any other known format. It should be used with some caution. Lars wrote to ding: Uhm. Nope. nnml is nnml, while nnmh is supposed to be mh compliant. nnml will never be able to coexist with mh. That the point of nnmh. On the other hand.. The manual says of nnmh: `nnmh' is just like `nnml', except that is doesn't generate NOV databases and it doesn't keep an active file. This makes `nnmh' a *much* slower backend than `nnml', but it also makes it easier to write procmail scripts for. This seems to imply that nnml is somewhat compatable with MH since nnmh (which is MH compliant) is "just like `nnml', except that is doesn't generate NOV databases and it doesn't keep an active file". Is the existance of the NOV databases and active file enough to introduce these incompatibilities? It really doesn't seem like it could, so is there something else I've missed? Jason R. Mastaler jason@mastaler.com