Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus.

[Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>]

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 .