Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-19 Thread Kai Grossjohann
back ends, you would have your mail delivered to a spool of some kind, and then you would configure Gnus to split mail from that spool into your groups. You can still do that with `nnmaildir', but the more common configuration is to have your mail delivered directly to the maildirs

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the concurrent delivery stuff is something you might find useful. (I hope I did mention this possibility -- I tend to forget sometimes.) Heh, yes, you realize how much I post. But for now, I've

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's what fixed mail for me... I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should work with nnfolder, too. First, had to tell procmail to spew at another directory. Then,

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's what fixed mail for me... I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should work with nnfolder, too. Actually, all the

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's what fixed mail for me... I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should work

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's what

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Nelson
say yes, I have this unsure feeling that I could be missing mail. So is gnus doing the right thing, or am I losing mail by saving? /me motions in the direction of gnu.emacs.gnus/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... You'll need to say what mail backend you're using. I've never seen this problem, but I use

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Remi Vanicat
say yes, I have this unsure feeling that I could be missing mail. So is gnus doing the right thing, or am I losing mail by saving? Well, with gnus it's better to make mail source and mail storage different, that to not put new mail directly into the gnus mbox (or whatever you tell gnus to use

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
to the files that Gnus is using. That is, in the default configuration Gnus uses ~/Mail/mail/misc (or ~/Mail/mail.misc) for the default mail group, and if you tell procmail to also write this file, then you'll quickly get into trouble. I don't know if this is your problem -- you weren't giving

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Never, never, NEVER let any program write to the files that Gnus is using. That is, in the default configuration Gnus uses ~/Mail/mail/misc (or ~/Mail/mail.misc) for the default mail group, and if you tell procmail to also write this file

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Never, never, NEVER let any program write to the files that Gnus is using. That is, in the default configuration Gnus uses ~/Mail/mail/misc (or ~/Mail/mail.misc) for the default mail group, and if you tell

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:04:08PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: It is easy. You tell procmail to write mail for the group nnfolder:foo.bar into the file ~/procmail/foo.bar, say. Then you tell Gnus

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:04:08PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: It is easy. You tell procmail to write mail for the group nnfolder:foo.bar into the file ~/procmail/foo.bar, say. Then you tell Gnus to read mail from there into the corresponding groups

gnus losing mail?

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
could be missing mail. So is gnus doing the right thing, or am I losing mail by saving? -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

You can try VM. Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-04 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, You can grab VM from http://www.wonderworks.com if you want an easy to use mail reader for emacs. If any other emacs users are reading this you should also check out the above mentioned site as they have some nifty packages for emacs. Chris Johann Spies wrote: I have heard that I can

Re: You can try VM. Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, So what is wrong with Debian's packaged VM? VM has been in Debian since July 1995 at leaset (in 5.92beta, I think). If there is something wrong with the prepackages VM, I would appreciate a bug report. manoj baffled -- dpkg -s vm Package: vm Status: install ok

Re: You can try VM. Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-04 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, I'm sure nothing is wrong with Debian's prepackaged VM. I didn't know it existed, and didn't think to check. I'd really like to manage emacs packages through dpkg actually, especially if it took care of all the emacs lisp 'require and loadpath and autoloading and autoloading cookies crap for

Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-03 Thread Johann Spies
I have heard that I can use gnus for handling my mail. I have looked at the huge amount of documentation on gnus mainly dealing with the reading of news. I do not want to use gnus for that as I am reading my news offline using slrn. The message-mode seems to have very few mail handling

Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
powerful than such systems too. | Can somebody direct me on how te setup gnus for email? That sorta depends on how you want to handle mail. In my opinon, the best mail backend in gnus is nnml. It's basically a system where each folder corresponds to a directory (~/Mail by default) and each message

Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I have heard that I can use gnus for handling my mail. I have looked at | the huge amount of documentation on gnus mainly dealing with the reading | of news. I do not want to use gnus for that as I am reading my news | offline using slrn. To gnus mail

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Eloy A Paris writes: Eloy rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail Eloy package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not... As it happens, rmail is a homonym (or is it polyseme?). Not only is the program that's used with UUCP called rmail, but RMAIL is also an Emacs mail

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-22 Thread Rob Browning
(nnml-directory ~/Mail/Outgoing) (nnml-active-file ~/Mail/Outgoing/active) (nnml-get-new-mail nil))) (setq gnus-message-archive-group '((if (message-news-p) misc-news misc-mail))) (setq nnmail

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Mark Lever writes: Mark Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long Mark now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they Mark use gnus for their mail and different folders contained Mark different types of mail. Could they elaborate and explain

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-11 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Mark Lever ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long now, and it : is limited. Someone mentioned here that they use gnus for their mail : and different folders contained different types of mail. Could they : elaborate and explain to me how to get gnus

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-11 Thread Emilio Lopes
EAP == Eloy A Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EAP rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail EAP package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not... Your guess is right. Rmail is a mail reader for Emacs. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

GNUS and Mail

1997-07-10 Thread Mark Lever
Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they use gnus for their mail and different folders contained different types of mail. Could they elaborate and explain to me how to get gnus to look at my mailbox and separate

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Mark == Mark Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long Mark now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they Mark use gnus for their mail and different folders contained Mark different types of mail. Could