From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60569 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: problem with pop3 nnml and default dir Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:52:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hdew9iig.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121442841 19559 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 15:54:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9097@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 17:53:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSUu-0001ZB-Ls for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtSU9-0005Lh-00; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtSU5-0005Lc-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DtSU2-00079g-CX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DtSU1-0000cq-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j6FFq90d015659 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j6FFq8bF029478; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from grumpy-fuzzball.mit.edu (GRUMPY-FUZZBALL.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.79]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j6FFq1nV024212; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUGBgS83KhoOivUeFmC pXj4o39qeFZD1JPmAAACOklEQVR4nE2UQY/bIBCFkVPlbpX0bA2tz7sQcl5SlnsWc7cclv// E/oGjNNxokjz8eYxA7HwR9xLKQGRC4eQezqUj7KWnDOzAOB3EjaBKDl4KPARzkvpAIqoUTwI a2op6WVoeXHOlfgsnJPM1kl0SdMIFEJ0AaIJshiRhkCsHbC/51LycKDmgiw2jVJy9B9IDPNN U5NkSMQoR+c5/zTW3qjZgwg5ylpJ2YT4wubO7FEVEs0NhvPJaqzxDaDS2gUpGUjyDkau9NxB fKsmu4Ir2XSpwAjxYwfsfeqlbJwqcAwwcLINxGRWtIhhMEB7ZLoAJudd4aE42e4RCQDjYMXK CpS6XOBtNM7EVfPAbRgihfU08Sg9jqIr9G9JJuo70cCty66gwY6kzJ9xIygyJs7mDNQcSEUV iPSE1qt5mLgUkcGj8ExTbrvii2CwG3UCQkxUXDUPE03KIqPw8Iq33IBfUcbw/Ez9eeo8VvPr qrRNj2RU1DjeaN6cG8c6RKVNnTg+GIDWfAkPBVdK2jC84fCq4n4yik+VNICNtoPlPkScrKmh bPw+FIGSYmBrOUPeNfATjajPpFXtMl0Hvyt4imfzqDvC9zZ3cAEYvlt/ADq7rvDbNKj3RuxC B7gsZRWzbSAaymNXSPxjia8id1GmV6kUyjDMf9vd3daXAiYFd4GvXNzmaT7AspRyJnoif6Nn Ob8UC94fN6KybTSbvB0e46d3Tyzm+I7v4QWW5WGswZulXFNyv/4DGFvqYRv4BxSm28ZwQ4mv AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: &OO..E]'&$Q?jm[7H$]lCS"t#FD[|jK.HfvP#![KZ`/,O)lQ(pE<2QS1i~K3+u\{Bh"(4h4G0W#R-F2zZNO6n\!8bk;tu%)f>y{C` P*^7yM`e/x"b1q[?^-9zxTp In-Reply-To: <87hdew9iig.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:49:27 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60569 Uwe Brauer writes: > Most likely I misunderstand something fundamental. > I want to read mail from a pop3 server and thought of using the > following setting > > Until now I read some mail from a pop3 server by the following > setting: > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods > '(nnfolder "/home/oub/Mail/Pop3-GMX")) > (eval-after-load "mail-source" > '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "blabl" > :user "bloblo"))) > > That sort of works but gnus happily ignores the string > "/home/oub/Mail/Pop3-GMX" > it puts the mail in the file > misc in > /home/oub/Mail/mail >From info://gnus/Mail+Folders, it looks like the select-method you want is (nnfolder "Pop3-GMX" (nnfolder-directory "/home/oub/Mail/POP3-GMX")) You shouldn't think of this as "reading mail from a POP3 server" as though the mail lives on the server; Gnus is reading and deleting all of the messages off the POP server (as described in mail-sources) and storing them in your nnfolder group(s) according to gnus-split-methods. > How can I set a special directory or file for my pop3 messages? The > documentation is not very helpful. (That is, this is an nnfolder question, not a POP question.) > Besides I now start to use the nnml backend. When I respool mail from > my nndoc folders, they end up in the mail/misc directory, since this > directory is the default for respooling but of course if I would like > the nnml backend for pop3 I would end up in a mess since the > directories for the pop3 and the default nnml group are the same, What distinction are you trying to draw? Gnus is perfectly happy storing mail in one place from multiple different sources. In fact, trying to segregate mail you pick up from multiple mail providers is a little tricky. So right now you have an nnfolder secondary select method. When Gnus starts, it asks nnfolder to pick up its mail, which it does by consulting mail-sources. Switching nnfolder to nnml doesn't change this process, just where the mail is stored once it gets pulled off the POP server. HTH, --dzm