On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:25:10 -0500, Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a Debian/Ubuntu question related to R or a > Gmail question related to R so I thought I would start with this > mailing list. > I often wish to email R scripts and the result of a R CMD BATCH run of > the script. I wish them to be enclosures of mime type text/plain so > they are easier to handle and so they can be included in the archives > of mailing lists. I use the web interface to Gmail for composing mail > but would be willing to use another client like Thunderbird with a POP > or IMAP connection to my Gmail account if that would be easier to > configure. Most computers I use run Ubuntu and a > Debian/Ubuntu-specific method would be sufficient for my needs. > Do I need to configure the mime.types file or is it better to > configure the mail client application? This works for me (in Gnus under Emacs): type=text/plain exts="r" type=text/plain exts="rout" The mail client app might have a template for easy editing with more options, but I'm not familiar with Thunderbird. I've been using Fetchmail for a long time to collect mail from a few sources (Gmail and a couple of IMAP servers), which is then handled by the system's MTA (exim4 in Debian) and put together in /var/mail/myuser. Your MUA (e.g. Thunderbird, or whatever) can easily get messages from there. This requires setting up a ~/.fetchmailrc. My entry for Gmail is: ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- set daemon 600 # check mail every 10 min set logfile "/home/myuser/.fetchmail.log" # log results here poll pop.gmail.com protocol pop3 username "u...@gmail.com" password "secret" is myuser ssl # Gmail requires ssl protocol fetchall ---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->--- -- Seb _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
