Re: make it easier to use nnml for archive groups

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:22:59 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
LMI> What do y'all think?
>> 
>> I sort of agree.  This is something I would expect to be asked to
>> customize the first time I start a MUA, but not to have enabled by
>> default.

LMI> Yes.  Unfortunately, Gnus doesn't really start up with a selection pane,
LMI> so we just have to pick sensible defaults.

Why not?  One of the perpetual complaints is that Gnus is hard to
configure (just do a search outside the Gnus venues, like Emacs and
general MUA discussions).  Perhaps we can remedy that.  

I don't know how to use assistant.el well (it's been years since you
wrote it) but I think it's reasonable to check if this is the first time
someone starts Gnus and then run assistants accordingly.  We should
provide assistants to:

- set up mail servers (providing a fast path for GMail and other popular
  ones)

- set up NNTP servers (including GMane and GWene)

- set up archiving, expiry, spam.el, gnus-registry, gnus-sync, etc. (I'm
  listing just my ideas, this should be everything useful)

Ted