Re: procmail and nnfolder

[jason@mastaler.com (Jason R. Mastaler)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason@mastaler.com> writes:
> 
> > After much experimentation, I finally got movemail to work.  I changed
> > nnfolder-directory to "~/gMail/lists/" and Gnus now moves mail from
> > "~/incoming/lists/" to corresponding groups in "~/gMail/".  My problem
> > seems to be solved, but still these workings seem counter-intuitive 
> > to me.  By what the manual has to say about 'nnfolder-directory' I
> > would think Gnus should build the nnfolder groups in "~/gMail/lists/" 
> > instead given my definitions.
> 
> I think nnmail expects the spool files to be called
> "~/incoming/lists.whatever", not "~/incoming/lists/whatever".

But I set:

(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/incoming/lists/")

so why would nnmail be looking in "~/incoming/" for spool files?

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Jason R. Mastaler                                 jason@mastaler.com