From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus does not see new mail in Maildirs Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:35:40 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3fqiv4a.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <5b6911644bf8063cf44102cc440f08fd@mailoo.org> <871u1yki02.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385772012 13923 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2013 00:40:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:40:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 30 01:40:19 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 1VmYba-0005UL-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:40:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmYbZ-0004oa-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:40:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WMLFVqAbekP3GmYClHqo1SI1Nt4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202464 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:94733 Archived-At: "William G. Gardella" 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