From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72592 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Using gnus with locally stored email (repost from users ml) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:45 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286266647 25567 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 08:17:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:17:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20964@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 10:17:26 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 1P32iB-0003QQ-CW for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:17:23 +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 1P32ho-0005SE-GV; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:17:00 -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 1P32hn-0005Ry-1K for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:16:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P32hl-0006y6-2W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P32hj-0003AN-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P32hh-0003IP-6s for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:53 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:53 +0200 Original-Received: from gnus by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-10-19 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72592 Archived-At: Sorry, I know this isn't the right place really, but I asked on the users ml and didn't really get where I am trying to get to. I've got a whole pile of locally stored mail in mbox files in ~/Mail and subdirectories thereof. Mutt is pretty easily configured to handle that, and that's what I used exclusively until a few months ago. I'm not married to mbox, I could also use maildir or any other format that mutt and gnus are both capable of reading. 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 :) If I can, I would still like the email to be accessible to mutt, even if I only rarely use it. Would nnfolder screw that up? Otherwise, that looks like the closest to what I already have, right? Or do I want (setq mail-sources '((directory :path "/home/gary/Mail"))) Actually I tried just that, and nothing happened, so I guess I have to also set something else? I'm rather confused about the relationship/differences between mail sources and backends...