From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78281 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leonidas Tsampros Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus. Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:46:13 +0300 Message-ID: <878vvvf7re.fsf@bifteki.lan> References: <87vcz0sqjg.fsf@live.com> <87lizwa1s8.fsf@bifteki.lan> <87wrjfjkka.fsf@live.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301597643 12097 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2011 18:54:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26589@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 31 20:53:59 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 1Q5N0H-0006g3-91 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:53:57 +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 1Q5Mzf-0002Hn-R3; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:53:19 -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 1Q5Mzc-0002HT-Lu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Mza-0003D9-En for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f172.google.com ([74.125.82.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5MzZ-0005ca-F3 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:53:13 +0200 Original-Received: by wyb29 with SMTP id 29so3598336wyb.17 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=dUPAXOL8EXgSpAhUBLgwVgsAiq0aG5LrGvkG16fvp3A=; b=usZTj0XXJi5lmDLuauKXWmpeRrALbghB+qY8/Mq/U9DvZ5f491Re/1HRzOJzKC6+IF Uel+F8az/JUx2/g2w5UAgiG4R84FjPJ+vy7yTvFqI6HvjU2npoPG1sB4odrOlnoFc/YE Y1m999hN/bYOK48iYk781m5uU6asKppi2OEG0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=BBrM5uHlt80JDDfxTgOZq3UilrR3ARGaETbRe9iBWLMX5VpxZ83RXH2oVp6ou3HNbe SZzGlU6uMmuoQqcOg6w44WBWFXHdi1dptvHvufPyyrTxrbEGDBsIZlYT9eTSZGyzEzwR FQV07Bl8ogzw1jDhlLe1qvlpEwXXdARrP43gA= Original-Received: by 10.216.59.129 with SMTP id s1mr2357274wec.85.1301597587694; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bifteki.lan (ppp-94-64-226-86.home.otenet.gr [94.64.226.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h11sm825873wbc.43.2011.03.31.11.53.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ltsampros-ferrari-one-200 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bifteki.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1242864A262; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:46:14 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <87wrjfjkka.fsf@live.com> (Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:56:05 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78281 Archived-At: 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. > > First I will tryout your convenient configuration. > > Thanks > > -- > Yagnesh