From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66025 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Sperber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch submission: Allow group-local mail sources for nnmail Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:48:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199343000 5572 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 06:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:50:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14518@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 03 07:50:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAJuE-0003bT-4O for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAJsz-0006NO-S3; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:49:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAJsx-0006N5-1Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:48:59 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JAJsv-0002it-Nr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:48:58 -0600 Original-Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net ([81.169.143.132]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JAJsv-00021S-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:48:57 +0100 Original-Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA346170E7 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:48:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from valmont.local (p5B205B29.dip.t-dialin.net [91.32.91.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AAF1170E5 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:48:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by valmont.local (Postfix, from userid 2246) id 2DC2648CC4F; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:48:53 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:29:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66025 Archived-At: Thanks for the prompt response! Reiner Steib writes: > On Tue, Jan 01 2008, Michael Sperber wrote: > >> I've had the following problem forever: I get *lots* of e-mail, and I >> travel a lot. I often have a slow Internet connection. For this >> reason, I pre-sort the e-mail into different IMAP folders on the serve= r, >> and would like to only selectively fetch what I want depending on wher= e >> I am. Unfortunately, `mail-sources' is global to all groups---I would >> really like to say "fetch the new mail for this group from this IMAP >> folder". >> >> To do this, I've added a `group' mail source which activates a >> `mail-source' group parameter, which does the job. =20 > > How do you actually use it? Hitting `M-g' > (gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group, > gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic) on the group? Yes. Or I do ESC g. >> The attached patch is relative to today's CVS. >> >> Could this be applied to the code? > > The patch is too large to be installed without legal papers. AFAICS, > your assignments only cover XEmacs and AUCTeX. So we need an > additional assignments, either for Gnus or for Emacs (which covers > Gnus as well). If you are willing to sign, I'll send you the form > off-list. Absolutely! > It's not clear to me how to use it (after reading the patch to > gnus.texi). Is the `mail-source' Group parameter boolean or a mail > source specification?=20 It's a mail-source specification. Is this: >> If it is set, and the setting of @code{mail-sources} includes a >> @code{group} mail source (@pxref{Mail Sources}), the value is a >> mail source for this group. clearer? > Is it necessary to adjust both, the group parameter and the variable > `mail-sources'? Yes. I have `mail-sources' set to `group', and then `mail-source' parameters for various groups. --=20 Cheers =3D8-} Mike Friede, V=F6lkerverst=E4ndigung und =FCberhaupt blabla