From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16132 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: supermiri123@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting up gnus: read on local, store remote (but not on mailserver) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:04:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0afcb7dc-9d2d-45cd-96a1-60ae6ae00bd5@googlegroups.com> References: <5896e2dc-a264-4ea7-b250-9e95cfaf01a2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361815511 5473 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 18:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 19:05:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA2Qb-0004PD-4K for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:05:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46960 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA2QG-00024f-0Y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:05:08 -0500 X-Received: by 10.224.18.199 with SMTP id x7mr9224776qaa.1.1361815480144; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:04:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.24.13 with SMTP id q13mr1072183qef.33.1361815480105; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:04:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!t2no4795093qal.0!news-out.google.com!t2ni671qaj.0!nntp.google.com!dd2no2872231qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.125.15.10; posting-account=nQgpAgoAAAAHPO8s4-iuK5qphr8H79NA Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.125.15.10 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:04:40 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87255 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16132 Archived-At: Thanks for the quick response! > A maildir might be a good choice. The `nnmaildir' backend (info "(gnus) > Maildir") can use a remote filesystem, e.g. > > (setq gnus-select-method > '(nnmaildir "mail" > (directory "/rsyncc:user@remotehost.org:/path/to/maildir/") > (get-new-mail t))) > > The above would use Gnus to incorporate mail using whatever methods you > picked in `mail-sources', and store them in a remote maildir accessed > with rsync (you can use any TRAMP filename, e.g. ssh:, scpc:, etc.). Reading this, it appears to me that I was confused about what gnus-select-method does :-) I now checked my .emacs and learn that I use the customized variable mail-sources to tell gnus where to get my mail from, gnus-select-method to tell gnus where to get my news from, and gnus-secondary-select-method to tell gnus where to store my mail. The last currently just reads ((nnml "")). In the documentation I see that nnml allows a parameter nnml-directory. Could I set this to a tramp path also? This would have the advantage that I do not have to respool my old mail. Also, the doc says that nnmaildir uses many many inodes (while nnml only uses many). Should I worry about this? Is there a particular reason to prefer nnmaildir over nnml in my setting? (I was happy with nnml for some 10 years now, but of course, the setting is slightly different now.) Many many thanks, Martin