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

[Gary <gnus@garydjones.name>]

Bojan Nikolic wrote:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>> 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?

Yup.

> 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.

Thanks. Will look into it all again at the weekend :)