From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7336 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Poindexter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: reading mail with Gnus Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:19:40 -0500 Message-ID: <199607250419.XAA05253@royal-oak.csc.ti.com> Reply-To: allan@csc.ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147662 6879 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA12830 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:43:03 -0700 Original-Received: from gate.ti.com (news.ti.com [192.94.94.33]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 06:20:43 +0200 Original-Received: from osage.csc.ti.com ([192.91.61.31]) by gate.ti.com (8.6.13) with ESMTP id XAA17432 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from royal-oak.csc.ti.com (royal-oak.csc.ti.com [192.91.61.73]) by osage.csc.ti.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA23315 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:19:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by royal-oak.csc.ti.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA05253; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:19:40 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7336 I have been trying to set up Gnus as a mail reader with mixed success. Currently I read mail with RMAIL. I split my messages with procmail into a variety of inboxes in "~allan/mail/.inboxes". These correspond to BABYL files in "~allan/mail" with the same name (e.g. the RMAIL file "~allan/mail/gnus" has an inbox set up at "~allan/mail/.inboxes/gnus"). The one exception is "~allan/RMAIL" whose is left in the traditional location but has an inbox at "~allan/mail/.inboxes/inbox". I have tried to use the nnbabyl backend to read this but can't get it to see new mail or any other files. Here is one of the server definitions I tried: (nnbabyl "mymail" (nnmail-spool-file nil) (nnmail-use-procmail t) (nnmail-procmail-directory "~allan/mail/.inboxes") (nnmail-procmail-suffix ".nnbabyl") (nnbabyl-mbox-file "~allan/mail/nnbabyl/NNBABYL") (nnbabyl-active-file "~allan/mail/nnbabyl/active") (nnbabyl-get-new-mail t)) I set up a group like this: ("nnbabyl:mymail.misc" 3 nil nil "mymail" nil) But no messages are found when I try to get new news. I have tried lots of different settings but none seems to do what I want which is to form a new group for each of the inbox files in the .inboxes directory. Most don't even get the normal mail much less the other groups. What am I doing wrong? I am willing to change most things about mail setup to get the Gnus interface for my mail. One thing I would like to keep however is the procmail processing. I would also *like* to be able to read the resulting files in RMAIL(i.e. babyl format) but this is not absolutely essential. I have considered moving to the mh backend too and will gladly listen to any arguments why I should. I don't know too much about the strengths and weaknesses of each the backends I'm afraid. Thanks in advance, dex P.S. To deal with one obvious objection: I originally had nnmail-procmail-suffix set to "". When I changed it to ".nnbabyl" I made copies of the appropriate inboxes at .nnbabyl for testing purposes so that is not the problem.