* mail sources and groups
@ 2005-11-17 14:03 Ian Zimmerman
2005-11-17 14:51 ` ecocode
2005-11-17 16:07 ` Reiner Steib
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2005-11-17 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
My main mail source is a directory with multiple spool folders,
into which I split with procmail. I prefer splitting with procmail
to Gnus' built-in nnmail-split mechanism for various reasons and
don't want to change that. Now what if I want to fetch from the
default system mailbox /var/mail/foo as well? I can add an mbox
source for it, but how does Gnus know what group these articles
belong to? Do I have to define nnmail-split-methods? Will
that clash with the procmail way (i.e. will all articles then
be routed to the one and only group in nnmail-split-methods,
ignoring the procmail split)?
Thanks.
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* Re: mail sources and groups
2005-11-17 14:03 mail sources and groups Ian Zimmerman
@ 2005-11-17 14:51 ` ecocode
2005-11-17 16:07 ` Reiner Steib
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: ecocode @ 2005-11-17 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
* Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com> wrote:
|
| My main mail source is a directory with multiple spool folders,
| into which I split with procmail. I prefer splitting with procmail
| to Gnus' built-in nnmail-split mechanism for various reasons and
| don't want to change that. Now what if I want to fetch from the
| default system mailbox /var/mail/foo as well? I can add an mbox
| source for it, but how does Gnus know what group these articles
| belong to? Do I have to define nnmail-split-methods? Will
| that clash with the procmail way (i.e. will all articles then
| be routed to the one and only group in nnmail-split-methods,
| ignoring the procmail split)?
|
| Thanks.
Ian ,
I've the same setup as you , filtering mail through procmail. I did not
want to give up the procmail filtering even for local mail. For this I
added this line in /etc/postfix/main.cf
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
This works nice, I can still filter mail with procmail and gnus doesnot
feel any difference between local and foreign mail
HTH
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* Re: mail sources and groups
2005-11-17 14:03 mail sources and groups Ian Zimmerman
2005-11-17 14:51 ` ecocode
@ 2005-11-17 16:07 ` Reiner Steib
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2005-11-17 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, Nov 17 2005, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> My main mail source is a directory with multiple spool folders,
> into which I split with procmail. I prefer splitting with procmail
> to Gnus' built-in nnmail-split mechanism for various reasons and
> don't want to change that. Now what if I want to fetch from the
> default system mailbox /var/mail/foo as well? I can add an mbox
> source for it,
,----[ <f1> v mail-sources RET ]
| mail-sources is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'.
| Its value is
| ((file)
| (directory :path "/foo/bar/procmail/" :suffix ""))
|
| Documentation:
| *Where the mail backends will look for incoming mail.
| This variable is a list of mail source specifiers.
| See Info node `(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers'.
`----
> but how does Gnus know what group these articles belong to? Do I
> have to define nnmail-split-methods?
Yes.
> Will that clash with the procmail way (i.e. will all articles then
> be routed to the one and only group in nnmail-split-methods,
> ignoring the procmail split)?
No. Just don't change `nnmail-resplit-incoming':
,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") ]
| There is also the variable `nnmail-resplit-incoming', if you set
| that to a non-`nil' value, then the normal splitting process is
| applied to all the files from the directory, *Note Splitting
| Mail::.
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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