Re: read mail in mbox files

[Richard Riley]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:29:36 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
>>>>>> So what format? Maildir?
>
>>>>> No, that would be nnmaildir.
>
>>>> nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back end that fed on Maildir?
>>>> Possibly silly wording issues only. I dont know at times.
>
>>> Yes, the backend that uses the Maildir format is nnmaildir; that was
>>> what I was trying to say.
>
>> So the format *was* Maildir.
>
> The format of what? The format used by nnml is surely is not Maildir. If
> you want to access something in the Maildir format, you should use
> nnmaildir. Which is what I was trying to say, and what I - frankly -
> thought we agreed on. I guess not.

Aha : that was a misread. I thought you were offering nnmaildir as
another option.

>>> You must have configured something else to point to ~/.emacs.d/Mail.
>>> Perhaps your archive method?
>
>>> I think you are staring at one thing in your configuration and ignoring
>>> all the other stuff, which might actually the cause of what you are
>>> seeing :-)
>
>> What you see is there is my nnml config. I have nothing else.
>
> You could be missing something ;-)
>
> [...]
>
>> Nothing else nnml in my init.el or my custom.el.
>
> So nothing in your entire Emacs configuration mentions ~/.emacs.d/ or
> ~/.emacs.d/Mail?
>

Nothing with regard to nnml ...

Maybe I am being overly optimistic to think that setting nnml-directory
to ~/Mail is enough to ensure that nnml is in , err, ~/Mail ;)

When its working perfectly I'll come back ..