From: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:38:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR03MB545538A2371387641CD5584F9B659@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfvngzfu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:26:29 -0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>
>>> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>>>
>>>>> [...] see (info "(gnus) Mail Source Specifiers")
>>>>
>>>> Also (info "(gnus) Select Methods"), and in particular
>>>> `gnus-secondary-select-methods'.
>>
>> What is the relationship (or difference?) between a select-method and a
>> mail-source? Can you use a mail-source without setting up a
>> select-method? Are split-methods the equivalent "select method" to
>> mail-source?
>>
>> The manual is not clear (to me) on this.
>
> 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.
I didn't know a select-method was storage! I thought it defined a place
to get mail from.
> 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).
I take it then that mail-source is not used with an IMAP select method,
right? So, let me repeat the original question -- how do you setup Gnus
to get mail from multiple IMAP servers (so I can read all of my families
email accounts, but leave their email in their IMAP server for them to
read also).
--
David Masterson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-28 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 1:34 Gnus and multiple Email servers David Masterson
2021-11-20 2:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-20 4:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-20 4:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-23 2:06 ` David Masterson
2021-11-23 6:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-23 8:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-28 4:40 ` David Masterson
2021-11-28 10:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-29 4:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-29 10:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-29 16:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-30 11:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-01 5:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-12-01 18:16 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-01 19:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-12-01 20:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-01 21:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-12-03 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-03 20:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04 4:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04 17:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-12-04 17:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04 20:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-23 9:55 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-11-28 4:38 ` David Masterson [this message]
2021-11-28 5:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-28 6:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-01 3:31 ` David Masterson
2021-12-01 4:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-22 6:48 ` David Masterson
2021-11-23 9:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-28 4:42 ` David Masterson
2021-11-20 5:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-22 6:38 ` David Masterson
2021-11-21 14:17 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-11-21 19:54 ` Sergey Organov
2021-11-21 21:14 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-11-22 2:43 ` Bob Newell
2021-11-22 9:44 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-11-24 13:34 ` Byung-Hee HWANG 🐂🐧
2021-11-24 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-24 21:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-25 14:42 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-11-25 14:32 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2021-11-22 10:35 ` Vegard Vesterheim
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