From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7404 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arne Elofsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature request ? (or help) Date: 01 Aug 1996 16:25:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147722 7116 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:02:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA20000 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 07:41:38 -0700 Original-Received: from rune.biokemi.su.se (rune.biokemi.su.se [130.237.179.49]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:26:14 +0200 Original-Received: (from arne@localhost) by rune.biokemi.su.se (8.7/8.7) id QAA11801; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:25:27 +0200 (MDT) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 31 Jul 1996 16:01:50 +0200 Original-Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7404 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7404 Kai Grossjohann 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Arne Elofsson Email: arne@rune.biokemi.su.se Tel:+46(0)8-161553 WWW: http://www.biokemi.su.se/~arne/