From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3546 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Mail storage format Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:09:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87oerozf8b.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <87fzdlloo0.fsf@u-h-l.de> <8765ehk3dn.fsf@u-h-l.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669623 19362 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:23 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077635353 52131619 I 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bJVOMDdtJpkmw15nPRHaKkTdPMA= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3687 Original-Lines: 25 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3687 Tue Jan 17 17:32:23 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3546 Archived-At: Klaus Uhl 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