Re: Using gnus with locally stored email (repost from users ml)

[Bojan Nikolic <bojan@bnikolic.co.uk>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Gary <gnus@garydjones.name>:
>
>> As I've been moving ever more to emacs, I find myself using gnus more
>> and more, but haven't tried integrating locally stored email (for
>> which I still use fetchmail & procmail). What's my best way of doing
>> that? I still want to suck some email down to my own HD, and that's
>> not going to change, so please don't suggest using imap :)
>
> I use nnimap with agent.  That has worked for me for quite a few years.
>
> But then I don't need to have the agent-cached email available to other
> email clients, such as mutt.
>
> Others are using server-local IMAP-servers.

I think Gary's original question may have been: how to read email that
is already been downloaded onto the local hard-drive? For this I simply
add the directory where the email is to the
gnus-secondary-select-methods:

      (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
	    '((nnmaildir "md"
	    		 (directory "~/Mail/downloaded"))
	      ))

Obviously this is for downloaded mail in the MailDir format.

To actually download mail onto local storage I use offlineimap -- it
uses the above-mentioned MailDir format.

Best,
Bojan

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