Re: read mail in mbox files

[Glyn Millington]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why is this a "spool" directory?
>>>>
>>>>> The word "spool" is throwing me. I thought "spool" meant it was
>>>>> spooled to you and then stored in a backend .. like nnml.
>>>> A "(news)spool" in news-related terms is usually where the
>>>> articles are stored in a newsserver (the meaning used here).  A
>>>> mail-spool is usually where mail is stored locally until the user
>>>> fetches it (/var/mail or /var/spool/mail).  In the documentation
>>>> nnml is described as the backend that most closely resembles a
>>>> newsspool, so that is probably where the choice of word comes
>>>> from. And perhaps also some of the confusion.
>>> I think in the context it's incorrect but wouldnt put my mortgage
>>> on it ...
>>> nnml-directory is not a spool really : the var/spool source is.
>>> And checking values now, I see, and amazingly confusing, that
>>> ,---- | Its value is "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive" `----
>>> How I dont know as I set
>>> (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail")
>>> bah ;) I need to start all over again ...
>> Hi Richard,
>> Here's a snip from my .gnus file.  It may be totally irrelevant,
>> becasue I have een smewhat confused by this discussion!! - but it
>> may help ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;,---- ;| MAIL SETTINGS AND MAIL SORTING
>> --------------------------------------------- ;`----
>> ; nnml is, as you know a mail backend - the nnml (I wonder if nnml
>> stand ; for Not NorMaL) format is what results when gnus grabs mail
>> from the ; two mail sources below. I use getmail to dump all my mail
>> into ; /home/glyn/Mail/inbox; system mail goes to
>> /var/spool/mail/glyn.  gnus ; grabs mail from both sources, I assume
>> transmogrifies it by elisp-magic ; into nnml format, and then shoves
>> it through my fancy-splitting ; set-up. (Just a fraction of that
>> here!) I read the mail from the groups ; created by the fancy
>> splitting - SLACKLIST, FREEBSD, FVWM etc etc
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")) mail-sources
>> ((file :path "/home/glyn/Mail/inbox") (file :path
>> "/var/spool/mail/glyn")))
>>
>
>
> Thanks for the examples. its amazing how many different ways people
> get this going.
>
> My "dummy" question of the minute here is:-
>
> mail-sources : how does nnml know its got control of them? What about
> other mail backends?

I don't use any other mail backends.  Are you wanting to use more than
one?  


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Glyn