From: Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:55:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtlvnql0.fsf@penguin> (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:
> ...
> 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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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 [this message]
2021-11-28 4:38 ` David Masterson
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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