From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William G Gardella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs mailreader that doesn't move the spool Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:40:52 +0000 Message-ID: <87vc0l7szv.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: <5266cc94$0$9750$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com> <52684778$0$53732$c3e8da3$14a0410e@news.astraweb.com> <87zjpx7tuf.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382683282 21010 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2013 06:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:41:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 25 08:41:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb5K-0003Ca-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb5K-0002Qk-2R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb55-0002Qc-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb4z-0007Wv-Jd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb4z-0007Wp-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZb4x-0002u2-Uc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:41:03 +0200 Original-Received: from lumumba.torservers.net ([77.247.181.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:41:03 +0200 Original-Received: from wgg2 by lumumba.torservers.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:41:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lumumba.torservers.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hG1lnWeTOggOQHk/fjsGiCx5Tqc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94206 Archived-At: William G Gardella writes: [...] > > Of course, this setup might or might not make sense for your > requirements. You may have some reason to prefer mbox, but consider > also that many contemporary MTAs such as Postfix are happy to deliver > directly to a maildir in $HOME, possibly without the help of an MDA > helper like procmail. Another thought: I notice you have an SDF account, so perhaps your mail is on a shell server where others have configured the MTA for you. Even in that case, I think a procmail configuration like mine should be quite suitable, because MTAs typically call procmail or another MDA like maildrop at the end of delivery, if the user has a ~/.forward or ~/.procmailrc. -- Best, WGG