Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com> writes:

> Hello ,
>
> XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com> writes:
> [...]
>>> Unfortunately no. Only pop interface. Thunderbird can keep
>>> mails on server, is
>>> not it possible with gnus.? 
>>
>> I use `getmail'.  Using an external tool also gives the
>> possibility to crontab it.
>
> Thanks for mentioning it, I think I would go with this. Could you share your
> configuration at least on gnus side.?
>
>
> Thanks.,

getmailrc:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
server = pop.gmail.com
username = xecycle@gmail.com
port = 995
password = my_password

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/procmail

[options]
read_all = False
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Here I tell getmail to use procmail.

.procmailrc:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/.incoming
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/uninteresting/
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail.log

:0:
* ^TOxecycle@gmail.com
inbox/
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Mails not addressed to me are usually list mails, so they go to
uninteresting.  My config is indeed longer than this.  This is
used primarily for desktop notifications, so that it doesn't
inform me of every mail.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq mail-sources '((maildir :path "~/Mail/.incoming/inbox")
                     (maildir :path "~/Mail/.incoming/uninteresting")))
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then I resplit mail in Gnus to be more specific.

The procmail step is optional.

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