From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3653 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Desparate with configuring maildir backend in gnus Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:10:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8fa6cd50.0403211559.3dcb46a7@posting.google.com> <87isgxfks4.fsf@nowhere.org> <877jxdfg7h.fsf@nowhere.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669693 19783 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:08:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:33 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T;w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv,vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~,:3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/,^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MnXez3GvVUOwu5UsCar/R1fYN4M= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-251-218.arcor-ip.net Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1079952150 145.254.251.218 (22 Mar 2004 11:42:30 +0100) X-Authenticated-User: rsteib Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3794 Original-Lines: 53 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3794 Tue Jan 17 17:32:33 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3653 Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 22 2004, Glyn Millington wrote: > Wazow writes: [...] [ '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(maildir :path "/home/wazow/.maildir/")) ] >> According to docs (and many entries on usnet) this will move all my >> incoming mail from .maildir to whatever the default location for >> nmmaildir is. > > That's right! Gnus is jealous - it really HATES it when other programs > try to muscle in on its love-affair with your mail ;-) I'm told that > jealousy can make Gnus really bad-tempered! So it snatches the mail away, > where other lesser MUA's cannot find it. This is true for nnml or nnfolder, but not for nnmaildir. After all, to allow concurrent access from different MUAs is one of the most important features of Maildir. >> I seemed to understand that since gnus can use maildir as its back end, >> then it can work with any maildir compatible mailbox. This way I would >> be able to read my mail also with other compliant clients if I need. Am >> I completely mistaken? No. Did you follow the instructions in the manual: (info "(gnus)Maildir")? In your first post, you wrote: | I have now spent hours (sic!) on trying to configure my gnus to read | mail. I have my mail delivered to ~/.maildir/ using postfix: | | wazow@klimt wazow $ ls -l ~/.maildir/ ^^^^^^^^^^^ | total 2 | drwx------ 2 wazow wazow 384 mar 21 22:44 cur | drwx------ 2 wazow wazow 624 mar 22 00:44 new | drwx------ 2 wazow wazow 48 mar 22 00:44 tmp | | I would like gnus to see this directories as newsgroups. So I add: | | ;; list-mail | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods | '((nnmaildir "MyMail" (directory "~/.nnmaildir/")))) ^^^^^^^^^^^ Shouldn't this be "~/.maildir"? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/