From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14479 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:56:07 -0800 Message-ID: <871v4wny1k.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293915395 32276 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 20:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:56:35 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 21:56:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ8V3-0006cl-FU for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:56:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ8V3-0000zC-17 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47007 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ8Uz-0000xX-LO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ8Uy-0004bO-Ff for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:56:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ8Uy-0004b9-AG for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ8Uu-0006YS-Qc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:56:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:56:20 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:56:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QZx+2gB//is2xqzoKry43G5EvKI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14479 Archived-At: Brett Viren writes: > Two more things to consider: > these ideas worked fantastically well, brett!! i'm not using procmail yet - have to figure out that one today because i want to do spam filtering with it ... right now with my new setup, i don't mind receiving spam though. :D certainly setting the "myserv" ties things together nicely. i was glad i'd figured out dovecot to be able to get in with minimal fuss, but thought it was a bit ironical that i'd need to do all this to get into my own files, so your imap without running a server was really great! i'm puzzled though as to why it actually works. i thought the idea was to have dovecot listen because a request to imap would come in, but the emacs entry: (setq imap-shell-program '("MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")) would seem to appear to run imap every time you access gnu - which i guess is the idea because you need to run it only once to get in. again, thx for these tips! -- in friendship, prad