Re: what mail source nnml correspond?

2005-08-17 Thread xFire
David Z Maze 写道: xFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i mean how to read the nnml dirctory with other mail back end? The one disadvantage of nnml is that Gnus is the only program that uses it. It's very similar to other file-per-message backends, like maildir and MH ... Do you mean i can us

Re: fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?

2005-08-17 Thread Johan Bockgård
Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but I wasn't sure how *Gnus* reads from the mailbox and empties > it. It uses the `movemail' program. -- Johan Bockgård ___ Info-gnus-english mailing list Info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.or

Re: fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?

2005-08-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! "Charles philip Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Theoretically it is possible that both actions happen at the same >> time. Is this dangerous, or is some locking mechanism used to do >> it safely? > > I have been doing this for many yea

Re: fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?

2005-08-17 Thread Charles philip Chan
On 17 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Theoretically it is possible that both actions happen at the same > time. Is this dangerous, or is some locking mechanism used to do it > safely? I have been doing this for many years with no problems at all. After all this is what fetchmail was designe

Re: what mail source nnml correspond?

2005-08-17 Thread David Z Maze
xFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i mean how to read the nnml dirctory with other mail back end? The one disadvantage of nnml is that Gnus is the only program that uses it. It's very similar to other file-per-message backends, like maildir and MH, though, and you can look at the nnml directory

fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?

2005-08-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! For a couple of days now, I call fetchmail in regular intervals for fetching mail and writing it to my unix mailbox (in /var/mail/bronger I think). Gnus is supposed to read from there. Theoretically it is possible that both actions happen at the same time. Is this dangerous, or is so

what mail source nnml correspond?

2005-08-17 Thread xFire
i mean how to read the nnml dirctory with other mail back end? ___ Info-gnus-english mailing list Info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english

Re: super-unconditional-expire?

2005-08-17 Thread Late
filter it to junk Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just read through the 'info' pages, but can't seem to find what I need. > > How do you "super automatically" mark a letter as "expired" even > *before* it is read? I'm getting these daily letters forwarded that can't > be stoppe