From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72682 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using gnus with locally stored email (repost from users ml) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87vd5hrnji.fsf@bnikolic.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286345993 8905 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2010 06:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 06:19:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21053@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 06 08:19:52 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 1P3NLv-0007Kr-Br for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:47 +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 1P3NLl-0006cL-J3; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:19:37 -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 1P3NLd-0006c2-Kz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3NLc-0004XL-9Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P3NLb-0003XS-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3NLb-0007I9-FV for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:27 +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 ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:27 +0200 Original-Received: from gnus by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:19:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 35 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: 2010-10-20 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72682 Archived-At: Bojan Nikolic wrote: > Steinar Bang 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 :)