Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus.

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com>]

Hi Leonidas,

Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:

> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagneshmsc@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hi.,
>>
>>>Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
>>> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com> writes:
>>>> Dear list.,
>>>>
>>> Noob here. I have been following the list silently for couple months. I
>>> still haven't able to make minimum setup to read my mail. By now, I am
>>> reading only news from gmane with Gnus with less than 10 lines in
>>> .gnus.el. It is tough to learn from others ".gnus.el" in contrast to ".emacs"
>>>
>>> One of the other list I am following is orgmode. I could at least get
>>> familiar with internal parts of org. Org has a very good website and as
>>> you all might know Worg written by the community, is fantastic, many
>>> tutorials which are helping me a lot to get start with different parts.
>>>
>>> So I think it would be great to have such a system for Gnus as well to
>>> open the doors to newcomers, given the fact that different backends,
>>> that complex terminology, and networking stuff make people scare off.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> yagnesh
>>
>>> Hi Yagnesh,
>>>
>>> big portions my of setup comes directly from the EmacsWiki. I think you
>>> can find a great bit of information wrt on how to setup Gnus on reading
>>> and receiving mail.
>>>
>>> I think it, boils down to answering the following questions before going
>>> on with the task of hooking up your mail in Gnus:
>>>
>>> 1) How do you receive/read your email? Is it local or remote? (e.g. do
>>> you currently use some combination of fetchmail/procmail or do you
>>> prefer to read everything online using imap?)
>>>
>>> 2) If you fetchmail your stuff locally into some common format
>>> (mbox/Maildir) from source, do you want to continue using these formats
>>> or would you consider a migration to the nnml backend?
>>>
>>> 3) Do you need splitting/sorting to be done either on local or remote
>>> methods?
>>>
>>> I hope I made my point with the above. The point is NOT to setup gnus to
>>> read email. The point is to setup gnus to read email THE WAY YOU
>>> WANT. There is enough rope around here for everybody I think :)
>>>
>>> p.s. my original setup was fetchmail->postfix->procmail->mbox->mua of
>>> choice. After a few experiments, I think the following setup was the
>>> most convenienenst to me: fetchmail->mbox->Gnus with splitting with
>>> nnml backend .
>>
>>
>> Thanks for explanation. It clears out few questions out of many I have.
>> My quest is to have all my mails (from different imap/pop sources) stored
>> locally on my lab computer(which is up & connected Internet 24hours) and
>> sync(possibly with git vc) them to my laptop.
>
> That makes sense! But you might ponder with the possibility of setting
> up an imap server on that pc. Many people here are running their own
> imap server or offlineimap or whatever to achieve their setups.
>
> Think it a little bit before trying something out. The above setup
> suited me because I have a netbook and I *always* carry it with me, so
> your mileage may vary.
>

I am slowly getting what you mean by "read email THE WAY YOU WANT". I
see, how an advantage for advance users can be problem for a new
user. countless of choices here in this case. Thanks to gnus.

Now I have to find out the best suited method for me.  Thanks for your
inputs.

Yagnesh


>>
>> First I will tryout your convenient configuration.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Yagnesh
>
>

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