Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir
Andrzej Adam Filip a...@onet.eu wrote: Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-02-08 23:25 (UTC), Dan Davison wrote: 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. 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 I'm not sure but I'd probably try F (Find new newsgroups) in *Group* buffer. No luck on my PC. [ I also would like to make gnus list maildir+ folders ] The hint: My ~/Maildir directory is managed by dovecot pop/imap. Dovecot uses names starting with dot for sub folder directories. [e.g. sub folder/sub maildir Sent is kept in ~/Maildir/.Sent directory] Gnus refuses to see sub directories starting with dot. When I created soft link ~/Maildir/Sent - ~/Maildir/.Sent gnus could see Sent folder (nnmaildir:Sent) but could not access messages stored in the sub maildir. -- [plen Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu : a...@xl.wp.pl There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. -- Spock, A Taste of Armageddon, stardate 3193.9 ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir
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
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Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-02-08 23:25 (UTC), Dan Davison wrote: 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. 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 I'm not sure but I'd probably try F (Find new newsgroups) in *Group* buffer. No luck on my PC. [ I also would like to make gnus list maildir+ folders ] -- [plen Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu : a...@xl.wp.pl The confusion of a staff member is measured by the length of his memos. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir
Dan Davison davi...@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
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Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir
On 2009-02-08 23:25 (UTC), Dan Davison wrote: 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. 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 I'm not sure but I'd probably try F (Find new newsgroups) in *Group* buffer. ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
