From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus does not see new mail in Maildirs
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:35:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3fqiv4a.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7595.1385769824.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"William G. Gardella" <wgg2@member.fsf.org> writes:
> The main difference between Maildir and MH-style
> one-message-per-file formats like nnml is that
> Maildir is designed to handle concurrent
> manipulations by multiple clients or mail
> transport/mail delivery agents at the same time.
> Rather than Gnus handling final local mail delivery
> to the folders where you're keeping the mail, it's
> possible for system daemons to take care of that and
> have Gnus (and other Maildir-compatible MUAs, mail
> indexing utilities, etc.) just sit back and watch. :)
So it is a less interactive system and you use Gnus
strictly as an interface. Perhaps that is something
that is (more) beneficial at the server level and/or if
you manage huge amounts of mails, as in listbots and
the like?
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-30 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-29 10:53 Gnus does not see new mail in Maildirs Alexis Praga
2013-11-29 21:09 ` William G. Gardella
2013-11-29 21:41 ` Alexis Praga
2013-11-29 23:26 ` William G. Gardella
2013-11-29 23:48 ` Alexis Praga
2013-11-30 7:25 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-11-30 11:24 ` Alexis Praga
[not found] ` <mailman.7507.1385761301.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-29 22:22 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7504.1385759419.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-29 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-30 0:03 ` William G. Gardella
[not found] ` <mailman.7595.1385769824.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-30 0:35 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-12-09 9:13 ` Emacs and solarized Alexis Praga
2013-12-09 10:57 ` Ian van der Neut
2013-12-09 11:25 ` Alexis Praga
2013-12-10 9:51 ` Alexis Praga
2013-12-10 14:48 ` William G. Gardella
2013-12-10 15:07 ` Alexis Praga
2013-12-11 4:38 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-12-11 10:19 ` Alexis Praga
[not found] <mailman.7471.1385738567.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-29 19:18 ` Gnus does not see new mail in Maildirs Emanuel Berg
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