From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8800 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Maildir as simultaneous spool and backend. Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:20:00 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: <1173810306.506120.66710@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173897681 8977 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2007 18:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 14 19:41:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HRYPH-0005Sm-Me for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:41:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRYQC-00073M-4U for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:42:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.INS.cwru.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: multivac.its.cwru.edu Original-X-Trace: eeyore.INS.cwru.edu 1173896444 28917 129.22.114.26 (14 Mar 2007 18:20:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@po.cwru.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2007 18:20:44 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NRJxt46R8aH+pjl6ktkf6dO2iMA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78984 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8800 Archived-At: usenet_spam@jfm3.org wrote: > The Archives directory contains a bunch of sub-Maildirs: nnmaildir won't scan for sub-maildirs recorsively. You have to set up a single directory that contains all your maildirs (or symlinks to them) at the top level. Something like this: mkdir ~/nnmaildir cd ~/nnmaildir ln -s ~/Maildir ./ ln -s ~/Maildir/Spam ./ ln -s ~/Maildir/Archives ./ ln -s ~/Maildir/Archives/Commerce ./ ln -s ~/Maildir/Archives/Sent ./ ln -s ~/Maildir/Archives/Ubuntu ./ ... Then use (directory "~/nnmaildir") in your select method. nnmaildir won't notice or use the hierarchical directory structure, but if you like hierarchy, you can set up a hierarchical structure in the Gnus *Group* buffer using topics, no matter how the maildirs are arranged in the filesystem. > Is it okay to use one Maildir as both the 'spool' and 'backend' for > Gnus? It depends on what you mean by "spool". It's ok to have outside programs deliver mail into the maildirs used by nnmaildir. But if you're using a maildir as a mail-sources entry, then you can't use that same maildir as an nnmaildir group. It's ok to have the nnmaildir maildirs be subdirectories of the mail-sources maildir, as long as the full list of nnmaildir maildirs is available in one flat directory. > can run more than one mail client without worrying about locking. I don't recommend running more than one Gnus simultaneously. Gnus keeps some state information that isn't stored in the maildirs, or isn't always kept synchronized with the disk state while it's running. Personally, I keep a single Gnus running under screen, and use screen -x to reconnect to it. paul