From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Mail storage format
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:09:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oerozf8b.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765ehk3dn.fsf@u-h-l.de>
Klaus Uhl <news@u-h-l.de> writes:
> I'm afraid "Mail Spool" (aka nnml) this is not the best choice if you
> want to use your mailboxes with an other program. From the Gnus manual:
The nnml format is like MH, but with some extra files. So read-only
access from other programs is not a problem. nnmh is MH format,
without the extra files in nnml. nnfolder is Unix mbox format, with
one file per group. nnmbox is Unix mbox format, with all groups in
one file. (The group is given in a message header.) nnbabyl is the
Emacs RMAIL format, with all groups in one file. nnmaildir is Maildir
format.
Gnus normally gets very angry if it finds out that you have been
writing to its files. This is true for nnml and nnfolder alike.
The nnmaildir backend is more forgiving than any other, AFAIK,
regarding writing to the files from other programs. Of course, nnimap
is also a good choice -- you can use two IMAP clients at the same time
without any problem at all. This includes Gnus.
Does this help?
Kai
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