From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81993 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: DiagonalArg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: N00b begging quick input. Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341212689 10628 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2012 07:04:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:04:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30263@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 02 09:04:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Slagi-0002FF-Hy for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:04:48 +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 1SlafZ-0008Ut-NP; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:03:37 -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 1SlZko-0008Fw-I3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:04:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SlZkk-0008NZ-LN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:04:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SlZki-0003kn-Kw for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:04:52 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlZkg-0004tR-1X for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:04:50 +0200 Original-Received: from airbears-136-152-15-177.AirBears.Berkeley.EDU ([136.152.15.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:04:50 +0200 Original-Received: from gmane.boxy by airbears-136-152-15-177.AirBears.Berkeley.EDU with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:04:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 136.152.15.177 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81993 Archived-At: Well, I must say that the Gnus manual is utterly overwhelming! I can at least connect to usenet, but setting it up for mail is a bit harder as I can't screw thing up in the process. I wonder if someone can give me a quick pointer of where I need to get started for the following situation: I am using RMAIL with <> files in Babyl format. Each individual that I correspond with has their own file. Once read, I sort the emails to their proper file by hand. Mail comes from the local spool. I now need to shift over to gnus. I would like the same functionality until I can figure out how to use gnus to change everything over to MailDir. I don't want to get blindsided by incorrect expiration that might delete mails that I keep until I can act on them. How in god's (pick a convenient one) name do I do this?? I am so lost in details that I am having trouble figuring how to start. Reading the manual linearly is not working, which is what I tried after jumping around failed. Any chance someone could give me a couple of pointers so I could begin to step into this? Thanks all in advance - /DA. (By the way, this needs to be quick. emacs 23 is long out, and I don't want to shift over to the destructive mbox format that RMAIL is now using.)