Babyl (Gnus Manual)

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7.4.13.2 Babyl

The nnbabyl back end will use a Babyl mail box to store mail. nnbabyl will add extra headers to each mail article to say which group it belongs in.

Virtual server settings:

nnbabyl-mbox-file ¶: The name of the Babyl file. The default is ~/RMAIL
nnbabyl-active-file ¶: The name of the active file for the Babyl file. The default is ~/.rmail-active
nnbabyl-get-new-mail ¶: If non-nil, nnbabyl will read incoming mail. Default is t