Re: Feature request ? (or help)

[Arne Elofsson <arne@rune.biokemi.su.se>]

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

> 

>   Arne> 2. I am using mh and nnml to do my mail splitting (and
>   Arne> creation of .overview and active files). The problem is [...]
> 
> Are you saying that you're actually adding files to nnml group
> directories outside of Gnus?  You should never, EVER, do that.  For
> doing mail splitting outside of Gnus, set nnmail-use-procmail to t and
> adjust the nnmail-procmail-* variables (but the suffix can't be "").
> 
> You then have to change your mail splitting thingy so that it appends
> messages to a file rather than writing new files into a directory.
> 
Well I do not want to do that I really like the nnml backend as it is
compatible with mh and is very fast.

> Also, very fancy mail splitting can be done from within Gnus so this
> is not really necessary.
> 
Yes I know, however some times I want to read my mail without starting
emacs and I like to have a crontab splitting my mail in the
background. 

I guess what I want is nnmail-use-procmail  but for the nnml backend


arne

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