Re: Mail folders inaccessible

[David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 10 2005, David Sumbler wrote:
>
>> OK - the problem seems to be gradually resolving itself: as each
>> folder receives a new mail (according to Procmail rules), it
>> becomes accessible from Gnus again, with all the contents marked as
>> unread.
>
> Does procmail deliver directly into you Gnus nnfolder files?

No

> If so, don't do that, use `directory' in your `mail-sources'
> instead:
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") ]
> | `directory'
> |      Get mail from several files in a directory.  This is typically used
> |      when you have procmail split the incoming mail into several files.
> |      That is, there is a one-to-one correspondence between files in that
> |      directory and groups, so that mail from the file `foo.bar.spool'
> |      will be put in the group `foo.bar'.  (You can change the suffix to
> |      be used instead of `.spool'.)  [...]
> | 
> |      An example directory mail source:
> | 
> |           (directory :path "/home/user-name/procmail-dir/"
> |                      :suffix ".prcml")
> `----

I use
(setq mail-sources '((directory :path "/home/david/Mail_folders/" :suffix ".prcml")))

David

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