[mew-int 01302] Re: questions on mailfolder handling in mew-3.2

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On March 4, 2003, [mew-int 01301],
"clemens fischer" <ino-qc at example.com> wrote:

> 1.  how do i save usenet articles into (i) a MH-maildir

You can copy an article from NNTP remote folder (-news.group) to
local folder (+folder) by `lc' (or `mlc' with `*' marks).

>  or (ii) into an mbox file?

Unsupported.

> 2.  with my experimentation with mew, i now have MH-maildirs made by
>     mew that i'd like to incorporate into an entirely different mew
>     folder structure.  i would have liked to set the variables
>     mew-conf-path and mew-mail-path in mew-config-alist to make them
>     cases.  is this possible somehow?

mew-config-alist doesn't support mew-conf-path and mew-mail-path.

> > (setq mew-mailbox-type 'mbox)
> 
> regarding this variable, it can also be set in mew-config-alist.
> should it be a string in double quotes or a symbol with a leading
> single quote?  would elisp treat both formats alike?

mew-mailbox-type requires a symbol, not a string.

See the following samples:

(setq mew-mailbox-type mbox) ;; NG: the value of mbox is used.
(setq mew-mailbox-type "mbox") ;; NG: it is a string, not a symbol
(setq mew-mailbox-type 'mbox) ;; OK: it is quoted, so the symbol mbox is used
(setq mew-config-alist
 '(			;; quoted by single-quote
   ("default"
    ("mailbox-type" . mbox) ;; OK: don't quote it, because it is already quoted
    ("mbox-command" . "incm")
    ("mbox-command-arg" . "-a"))))

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita