From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78295 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus. Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:39:17 +0900 Message-ID: <871v1l95pm.fsf@live.com> References: <87vcz0sqjg.fsf@live.com> <87lizwa1s8.fsf@bifteki.lan> <87wrjfjkka.fsf@live.com> <878vvvf7re.fsf@bifteki.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301683225 10927 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 18:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Leonidas Tsampros Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26603@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 01 20:40:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jGd-0004jc-Oq for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jFl-0008D7-Kj; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:39:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jFk-0008Cy-EL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jFi-0003yt-DK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from 221x115x36x228.ap221.ftth.ucom.ne.jp ([221.115.36.228] helo=raghava-note) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jFh-0001UJ-1T for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:39:21 +0200 Original-Received: by raghava-note (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D003568F05; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 03:39:17 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <878vvvf7re.fsf@bifteki.lan> (Leonidas Tsampros's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:46:13 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.4 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-1809--4910h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-1732--4700h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-1668--4525h-0s--0d--H*u:linux, 0.000-1668--4525h-0s--0d--H*UA:linux, 0.000-1610--4369h-0s--0d--H*u:gnu Spam tokens: 0.943-2469--1231h-41133s--0d--H*r:quimby.gnus.org, 0.866-6159--35252h-460431s--0d--H*r:helo Autolearn status: no 0.0 FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1 FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (yagnesh[at]live.com) 1.3 RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL RBL: Relay in RNBL, https://senderscore.org/blacklistlookup/ [221.115.36.228 listed in bl.score.senderscore.com] -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 1.0 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to internal network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS 0.0 RFC_ABUSE_POST Both abuse and postmaster missing on sender domain 0.0 HELO_NO_DOMAIN Relay reports its domain incorrectly List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78295 Archived-At: Hi Leonidas, Leonidas Tsampros writes: > Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala writes: >> Hi., >> >>>Leonidas Tsampros writes: >>> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala 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 > > -- It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"