Separating news and mail stuff completely?

Separating news and mail stuff completely?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Hi there,

I wish you all the best for this time of year (and for the next year).

I vaguely recall somebody having talked about two separate news/mail
environments in Gnus in different directories.  I'm trying to do
something similar: separate the news (NNTP) and mail (nnml) stuff as
completely as possible.  Currently, I use a somewhat standard setup
which means that Gnus stores all kinds of things (in particular,
marks) in .newsrc.eld which is shared between news and mail groups.
I'd like to separate the storage of marks for news groups and for mail
groups into different files.  Is that possible?  From a cursory look
at .newsrc.eld, it seems that I want to split gnus-newsrc-alist,
mostly.

tia,
kai
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Re: Separating news and mail stuff completely?

[Rich Pieri]

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>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

KG> I vaguely recall somebody having talked about two separate news/mail
KG> environments in Gnus in different directories.  I'm trying to do
KG> something similar: separate the news (NNTP) and mail (nnml) stuff as
KG> completely as possible.

Can be done quite easilly, actually; I have been doing it all along.
The trick is to maintain separate .newsrc files (.newsrc for mail,
.newsrc-server for news), and use "correct" values for
gnus-select-method.  I use a set of foo-gnus functions to Do The Right
Thing for me (rat:gnus is just a wrapper which does a bit of other
housekeeping for me):

(defun mail-gnus ()
  (interactive)
  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
  (rat:gnus t))
(defun ccs-gnus ()
  (interactive)
  (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.ccs.neu.edu"))
  (rat:gnus nil))

To "convert" an existing setup, I think the easiest thing to do is to
copy .newsrc and .newsrc.eld to .newsrc-server and .newsrc-server.eld.
Then start Gnus with each value of gnus-select-menthod and delete the
groups you don't want.  This is a lot easier than editing a .eld file by
hand.

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