Migrating from Mutt

[Chris Willard <chris@thewillards.co.uk>]

Hello All,

I am currently using Mutt for email and would like to try using gnus as I spend lots of time using emacs.

My current setup is as follows.

1) Email arrives into port 25 of my ESVA spam filter system (http://www.global-domination.org).
2) Allowed emails are sent to port 25 of my ubuntu system.
3) Procmail filters the emails and puts them in ~/Mail/file-name
4) Other mail goes into /var/mail/chris

I had a quick go at getting gnus to work by entering the following into ~/.gnus

,----
| ----- gnus settings
| (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
| 
| (setq nnmail-spool-file '(  
|    (file :path "/var/mail/chris")  
| ))  
`----

I could not see any mail in gnus but it dissapeared from /var/mail/chris

Any tips would be useful to get me started plus in there a way to leave mail in /var/mail/chris while I am learing gnus?

Also there seem to be many ways to store the mail! Is any method best? 

Finally I have found people running a local IMAP server to access mail. Is this a good way to do it?

Regards,

Chris



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