Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus.

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagneshmsc@gmail.com>]

Hi.,

>Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
> 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 .


Thanks for explanation. It clears out few questions out of many I have.
My quest is to have all my mails (from different imap/pop sources) stored
locally on my lab computer(which is up & connected Internet 24hours) and
sync(possibly with git vc) them to my laptop.

First I will tryout your convenient configuration.

Thanks

--
Yagnesh