Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Riley
Glyn Millington wistansw...@linuxmail.org writes: Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: Glyn Millington wistansw...@linuxmail.org writes: Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Riley
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:29:36 +0100, Richard wrote: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote: So what format? Maildir? No, that would be nnmaildir.

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Riley
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: gnus-update-message-archive-method was set to t but this does not alter the archive methods in the newsrc if you alter something like nnml-directory. I removed the offending parts of the .newsrc.eld by hand (always hairy) and now have it all clean

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail. What I'd like is gnus to work directly on these

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Münster
ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail. What I'd like is gnus to work directly on these mbox files. Is this possible? Perhaps yes. But it's

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
Leonidas Tsampros ltsamp...@upnet.gr writes: Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail.

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:41:04 +0100, Richard wrote: ~/Mail is a default. I am pretty sure (thats a euphemism meaning I am happy to remain in ignorance as it works for me) that nnml reads incoming from the spool /var/spool and then stores them in mbox (or whatever?!?) in ~/Mail. nnml does not

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
Gary g...@garydjones.name writes: Funny. I didn't see the OP. Anyway... Richard Riley wrote: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail.

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:41:04 +0100, Richard wrote: ~/Mail is a default. I am pretty sure (thats a euphemism meaning I am happy to remain in ignorance as it works for me) that nnml reads incoming from the spool /var/spool and then stores them in mbox

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Münster
ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: If I understand correctly, this will copy the spool files in ~/.mail to ~/Mail, and leave everything in ~/.mail unchanged. This is not exactly what I wanted though. The idea is that mbox being an open format one would say it should be possible to use the

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
Gary g...@garydjones.name writes: Funny. I didn't see the OP. Anyway... Richard Riley wrote: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail.

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:59:40 +0100, Richard wrote: nnml does not store in mbox format: ,[ 6.3.13.3 Mail Spool http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_194.html#SEC194 ] | | If you use this back end, Gnus will split all incoming mail into files, | one file for each mail, and put the articles into

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why is this a spool directory? The word spool is throwing me. I thought spool meant it was spooled to you and then stored in a backend .. like nnml. A (news)spool in news-related terms is usually

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why is this a spool directory? The word spool is throwing me. I thought spool meant it was spooled to you and then stored in a backend .. like nnml. A (news)spool in news-related terms is usually where the articles are stored in a newsserver

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:28:23 +0100, Richard wrote: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: A (news)spool in news-related terms is usually where the articles are stored in a newsserver (the meaning used here). A mail-spool is usually where mail is stored locally until the user fetches it

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:59:40 +0100, Richard wrote: nnml does not store in mbox format: ,[ 6.3.13.3 Mail Spool http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_194.html#SEC194 ] | | If you use this back end, Gnus will split all incoming mail into files, | one file

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote: So what format? Maildir? No, that would be nnmaildir. nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back end that fed on Maildir? Possibly silly wording issues only. I dont know at times. Yes, the backend that uses the Maildir format is

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote: So what format? Maildir? No, that would be nnmaildir. nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back end that fed on Maildir? Possibly silly wording issues only. I dont know at times. Yes, the

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:29:36 +0100, Richard wrote: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote: So what format? Maildir? No, that would be nnmaildir. nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back end that fed on Maildir? Possibly silly

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why is this a spool directory? The word spool is throwing me. I thought spool meant it was spooled to you and then stored in a backend .. like nnml. A

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Münster
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: Now to figure out where .emacs.d/Mail is coming from. Start first with emacs -Q, so no site configuration file will be loaded. Then you go on loading your configuration files one by one and check when the value of nnml-directory changes. -- Peter

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
Glyn Millington wistansw...@linuxmail.org writes: Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why is this a spool directory? The word spool is throwing me. I thought spool meant it was spooled

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Riley
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:29:36 +0100, Richard wrote: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:46:44 +0100, Richard wrote: So what format? Maildir? No, that would be nnmaildir. nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: Gary g...@garydjones.name writes: Funny. I didn't see the OP. Anyway... Richard Riley wrote: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: Glyn Millington wistansw...@linuxmail.org writes: Richard Riley rile...@googlemail.com writes: a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote: Why is this a spool directory? The word spool is

read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread ernest
Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail. What I'd like is gnus to work directly on these mbox files. Is this possible? What backend do I need? I'd say I don't even want a

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread ernest
Thanks for the comments. On 18 Gen, 14:35, pmli...@free.fr (Peter Münster) wrote: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail. What I'd like

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-18 Thread ernest
On 18 Gen, 15:48, pmli...@free.fr (Peter Münster) wrote: ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: If I understand correctly, this will copy the spool files in ~/.mail to ~/Mail, and leave everything in ~/.mail unchanged. This is not exactly what I wanted though. The idea is that mbox being an

Re: read mail in mbox files

2011-01-17 Thread Richard Riley
ernest nfdi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, This is my setup: I use fetchmail to get mail from different POP/IMAP servers, then split the incoming mail with procmail into different mbox files in ~/Mail. What I'd like is gnus to work directly on these mbox files. Is this possible? What backend do I