From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1122 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mail group ('G f') not expiring/shrinking Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:22:24 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <65xcgd5r.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> References: <86k7m0c50o.fsf@number6.magda.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667941 9903 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:40 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!news.belwue.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: ino@despammed.com Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1031799103 00 3605 yYItbF8SEY+26 020912 02:51:43 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520082050842-0001@t-dialin.net Mail-Copies-To: nobody Return-Path: ino@despammed.com Envelope-Sender: ino@despammed.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x4nTxnoC6E4f0ayTqwrehTvImI4= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1262 Original-Lines: 37 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1262 Tue Jan 17 17:28:40 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1122 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > /---- > | `directory' > | Get mail from several files in a directory. This is typically used > | when you have procmail split the incoming mail into several files. > | That is, mail from the file `foo.bar.spool' will be put in the > | group `foo.bar'. (You can change the suffix to be used instead of > | `.spool'.) Setting `nnmail-scan-directory-mail-source-once' to > | non-nil forces Gnus to scan the mail source only once. This is > | particularly useful if you want to scan mail groups at a specified > \---- > > If this is unclear, please suggest improvements. well, i rerad this and many other entries several times, and i reread it here in your citation, and if i hadn't experimented, it would still not be clear to me (although you even suggested using :directory in private email, but with no apparent reason). why not tell people: "using :directory will prohibit gnus from further splitting the mail-source, but it will do so when using :file." i want that to be clearly stated, because at that time i had many old mbox-type folders in the incoming directory, some of which where prefiltered by procmail. also, those files did not have any distinguishing marks like some suffix. this made me think i should rather use the :file attribute to be more picky. ... until out of other leads to go on i fitted some unimportant folder with .spool at the end, commented out the :file's and used the :directory. before that i had thought :file and :directory were just different means to pick mail-sources. when i read "That is, mail from the file `foo.bar.spool' will be put in the group `foo.bar'", with the sentence before that leading in with "typical", i don't see why using :file is any different. -- clemens