Richard Riley <rileyrgdev <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Dan Davison <davison <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: >
> > I want to try out gnus, but have got nowhere so far. I would > > greatly appreciate instruction on how to read mail stored > > locally in maildirs. > > > > My email is downloaded by getmail, and stored by procmail > > into a variety of maildirs stored under ~/email/. However in > > order to start playing with gnus, I have created the > > directory ~/Maildir containing a single maildir-format > > directory: > > > > ~> ls ~/Maildir/dan-mail/ > > cur new tmp > > > > My ~/.gnus.el contains > > > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > > '((nnmaildir "" (directory "/home/dan/Maildir/")))) > > > > When I start gnus I enter a (Group Plugged) buffer which is > > empty with the message "No more unread newsgroups". When I > > hit "L" I see > > > > 0: nndraft:queue > > 0: nndraft:drafts > > > > When I hit "^" I enter a (Server Plugged) buffer containing > > > > {nnfolder:archive} (closed) > > > > RET on that line results in a message "Connecting to archive > > ... done", after which "L" displays > > > > {nnfolder:archive} (opened) > > > > > > This isn't the first time I've lost a few hours trying to get > > started with gnus, so I am giving up and sending > > this (admittedly pathetic) email. > > > > Thanks for any help! > > > > Dan > > > > > > I used to use local Maildir so know it works. I cant remember > what i did though, but did you try here? > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UsingProcmailWithGnus#toc3 > Thanks Richard, I did not. Stupidly I had been googling for gnus+getmail but not gnus+procmail, and I hadn't arrived at the correct combination of mail-sources and select-methods. So I'm up and running now with the following based on that EmacsWiki (setq gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "email" (directory "~/email-gnus/"))) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.gmane.org"))) (setq mail-sources (mapcar (lambda(dir) (list 'maildir :path dir :subdirs '("cur" "new" "tmp"))) (directory-files "~/email-gnus" nil "^[^.]"))) One question for now: I've resorted to using the web to post this! I couldn't find this thread in nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.gnus.general, and of course my subscription to the mailing list postdated this message. So I didn't know how to use gnus to reply to this thread with the correct headers. Why isn't this thread in the newsgroup? Dan _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english