From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/824 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Nesbit Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Mapping of group names to filenames with nnml Date: 25 Jul 2002 18:18:16 +1000 Message-ID: <87elds6x13.fsf@lensflare.org> References: <87bs8yl6sl.fsf@lensflare.org> 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 1138667725 8562 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:10 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Original-Sender: andrew@anima Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.220.237 Original-X-Trace: 1027585096 11265 210.49.220.237 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:964 Original-Lines: 39 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 964 Tue Jan 17 17:28:10 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:824 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Andrew Nesbit writes: > > > I take it from experience that periods in group names cause nnml to > > store these groups as a directory hierarchy. > > Also see the variables gnus-use-long-file-name and > nnmail-use-long-file-names. Yep, that explains a lot for me. > > > If I have a procmail-generated spool file named, say, > > `debian.user.spool', combined with a mail-source specifier like > > > > (directory :path "~/Mail/Spool/" > > :suffix ".spool") > > > > then does that mean that the group will be called `debian.user' and > > that nnml will create a directory hierarchy, as described above, to > > store its messages? > > This means that messages from the file ~/Mail/Spool/foo.bar.spool > will be written to the group nnml:foo.bar. So there is a direct > correlation between the file name and the group name -- independent > of what is the directory name used for the nnml:foo.bar group! Okay, I see, now. I do have one extra question now, though. If a previously-nonexistent spool file is created by Procmail whilst Gnus is running, then how do I get the group associated with that spool file automatically created? At present, the only way I know is to either quit and restart, or to manually create the group with 'G m'. Is there any automatic way? Thankyou for the help :) Andrew.