Re: Converting to Gnus

[Neil Woods]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Sun, 01 Aug 2004, neil@suespammers.org wrote:
>
>> [Gnus] certainly seems to me to be the most configurable news/mail
>> system I've ever seen. Perhaps even a little daunting!
>
> I think it's fun.  Gnus is the only MUA I know that is fun to learn
> and extend, not just to play with the Preferences dialog.

I can certainly echo that. I've been reading the manual and configuring
the settings for a few days now. I think I'm beginning to get the hang
of how it all fits together.

This is my first post (apart from a couple of test messages) using Gnus,
having used slrn (and trn before that). I wish I'd started using it
years ago :)

[snip]

>>> If you plan to run something else that will access the mail outside of
>>> Gnus, especially for writing (e.g. an IMAP server), you should use
>>> nnmaildir.  It's built for concurrent access.  nnml is fast, sure, but
>>> nnmaildir is not significantly slower in my experience.
>> 
>> I would like to plan for that eventuality. Although at present I only
>> have POP3 mail sources, I'm planning to get an account at fastmail.fm,
>> from which I can use IMAP. Can I mix the two backends, dependant on
>> mail source?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  You can use IMAP for real (through the
> nnimap backend), or you can use it as a mail source to another
> backend.  Is that what you are asking?

Err, yes. You've answered my question :)

Thanks again.

Neil.