Re: Gnus for mail - fetchmail, procmail, splitting

["Mario Domgörgen" <kanaldrache@gmx.de>]

Massimiliano Mirra - bard <bard@prism.localnet> writes:

>     mail source: directory where procmail delivers the mail
>     mail backend: nnfolder

I would really recommend nnml, it is much faster especially for large
groups... i know that, i have also used that some time ago... :)
     
>     get mail with fetchmail -> split mail with procmail -> mail gets
>     arranged in various mbox files -> split mail again and move it
>     with gnus -> mail gets arranged again in other mailbox files ->
>     read mail with gnus
> 
> Can I avoid the second split and tell Gnus to just associate the
> mailgroup ABC with the mailbox file abc, the mailgroup XYZ with the
> mailbox file xyz, etc., without any processing?


That's exactly what i do:

,----[~/.procmailrc
| MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/spool/
| 
| :0:
| * ^TO*icewm-user*
| icewm-user.spool
`----[and so on

,----[~/.gnus 
| (setq mail-sources
|       '((directory :path "~/Mail/spool" suffix:".spool")))
| 
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
| 	     '((nnfolder "")))
`----

That should work!

Mario

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