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Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers
From: |
Byung-Hee HWANG |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:55:55 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> ...
> A mail source is an external "place" that mail comes from. Gnus doesn't
> own or manage that source, it simply fetches the mail from there, then
> stores it in a select method. As Gnus is storing the mail, it might also
> split it.
>
> So no, you can't use a mail source without a select method, because once
> Gnus has got mail from the source, it has to put it somewhere.
>
> A mail source is most often a POP server, or a mail spool.
>
> It's confusing because some select methods essentially act as their own
> mail sources, most notably IMAP and NNTP servers. An nnmaildir select
> method can also be configured to find new mail "in place", if it's being
> delivered there by some other process. In these cases, you won't be
> using mail sources at all (I don't have any mail sources).
>
> Hope that helps!
Thanks Eric, i didn't know about mail source, thanks again!
Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee
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- Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/11/23
- Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers, David Masterson, 2021/11/27
- Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/11/28
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- Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/11/29
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