From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72619 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bojan Nikolic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using gnus with locally stored email (repost from users ml) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:34:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87vd5hrnji.fsf@bnikolic.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286285828 305 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 13:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:37:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20991@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 15:37:06 2010 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 1P37hY-0008J3-Pz for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:37:05 +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 1P37hX-0007mh-KB; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:37:03 -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 1P33un-00061K-DK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P33ul-0007Ud-R7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P33ul-0004Hg-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P33ug-0004q8-0K for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from p5df42ef1.dip.t-dialin.net ([93.244.46.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:21 +0200 Original-Received: from bojan by p5df42ef1.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5df42ef1.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rAgQi6TD+zqbI1asajGSNK4KhlY= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72619 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Gary : > >> 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 -- Bojan Nikolic || http://www.bnikolic.co.uk