From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72600 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using gnus with locally stored email (repost from users ml) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:40 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286271326 13512 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 09:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:35:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20972@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 11:35:25 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 1P33vh-0005Fl-0X for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:35:25 +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 1P33vY-00062B-Q9; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:35:16 -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 1P33vX-00061u-Fj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P33vW-0007VE-0Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P33vV-0004Ho-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:35:13 +0200 Original-Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so5220286fxm.17 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:34:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:organization :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=1oegMH3Atgb9tBPkQsbjbIAI/msNSMuQK5ofZqrBUbk=; b=JvGHfVubyKOMnbXrm9odsovievuPOmoVVWooAL9VgKW3pHx1r/0DGXavtOxUQ4EFj3 3CQsR8xst95Imf7+eK6aPeS/u3K2pf4Ow+HeCsyAH0cm5OMJ+LMjuMjEmJFb2QUejeXp /y/+/40m6xGewgtSTcu7vjhn14yMKgNt7iX+g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=AAbMLJknCb1c/SUvWJo8pee7FwFm5Vx1nFuzjrvKpEupA6TO5QPAfKlXkb31Meedbn nepo49nfmZutkp1hGnjxzsn/xA6nyy4utOMZ0sNUxAqdRbgufhqaF1hDY/+miFEaLNKV jkXBhWhTg23V4w2w/tUqAtrNa2PNCj+jnhd+A= Original-Received: by 10.223.114.139 with SMTP id e11mr4017298faq.68.1286271282900; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a16sm2756351fai.1.2010.10.05.02.34.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:34:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:19:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72600 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 dont know how to set up gnus to read his current mbox but guess its easy - then the "migration" will be to simply move from that group to another group. What I like, especially after Lars recent imap elispathon, is to use local dovecot servers on all my machines. This stores using maildir but provides an imap interface for gnus (and other mail readers including mutt). IMAP sync using offlineimap then makes much more sense to me than using fetchmail since its bidirectional and all things "sync" between my gmail accounts and various machines with their own dovecot servers. The benefit being each machine has its own email cache and search etc are lightning fast.