From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57655 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Finch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Newbie ignorance about just reading email Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:00:35 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <16560.59075.110364.219708@crowfix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085335291 13662 80.91.224.253 (23 May 2004 18:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6195@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 23 20:01:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRxHj-0001U8-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 20:01:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRxHD-0005V5-00; Sun, 23 May 2004 13:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRxH5-0005Uz-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 May 2004 13:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from crowfix.com ([216.240.38.154] ident=7795) by util2.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BRxH3-0007bJ-V4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 May 2004 13:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 29331 invoked by uid 501); 23 May 2004 18:00:35 -0000 Original-To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.3.1 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57655 I run Linux (Slackware 9.x) and GNU emacs (21.3) and have used vm for a long time to read email, but it only works with maildirs thru the kluge of copying maildir messages into an mbox file. This is not very satisfying. I know KDE's Kmail understands maildirs, but I want a text mail reader that works over ssh. I have used pine and whatnot, and they don't excite me either. A google search said gnus might do the trick, so I downloaded it and have pawed thru the info file, but almost all the documentation is related to reading news, and I don't want gnus for that, at least not now; maybe later. If I can't get it to handle email, and just email, it doesn't do me any good to switch news readers just for fun. What I want is for M-x gnus to bring up mail, and nothing else. I created an initial gnus.el file like this ... (setq gnus-select-methods '((nnmaildir ""))) (setq mail-sources '((maildir :path "~/.nnmaildir/"))) with some dummy Maildirs in there for testing, and all it wants to do is create a News directory and run some startup news code, which complains that some bogus new server is unavilable, then asks if I want to go offline. I haven't explored it any further. I realize I haven't fully explored the copious info files, but so much of it assumes I want to read news, or is related to how to handle messages, that my b\poor addled brain begins to fade and I don't want to spend hours sorting hay to find the needle I do need. Is there some basic simple way to configure gnus to only process mail on startup? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o