opening mbox

opening mbox

[Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich]

Hello,

    I'm still not confirm with the gnus way:

    How do I access a global inbox (file) without changing anything?

    I've added the following entry to my mail-sources:

          (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

    So how do I tell gnus to accept it?

     Peter

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Re: opening mbox

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> writes:

>     I'm still not confirm with the gnus way:
>     How do I access a global inbox (file) without changing anything?

What is it that you don't want to change?  You'll need to change your
~/.gnus or ~/.emacs file to do that...

>     I've added the following entry to my mail-sources:
> 
>           (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

Maybe there's a syntax error?  Can you show us the exact snippet from
~/.gnus that does this, and/or show us the exact value of mail-sources
(with C-u M-: mail-sources RET for example)?

kai
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Re: opening mbox

[Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich]

>>>>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:20:08 +0200, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) said:

Kai> Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich
Kai> <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> writes:

>> I'm still not confirm with the gnus way: How do I access a
>> global inbox (file) without changing anything?

Kai> What is it that you don't want to change?  You'll need to change your
Kai> ~/.gnus or ~/.emacs file to do that...

>> I've added the following entry to my mail-sources:
>> 
>> (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

Kai> Maybe there's a syntax error?  Can you show us the exact snippet from
Kai> ~/.gnus that does this, and/or show us the exact value of mail-sources
Kai> (with C-u M-: mail-sources RET for example)?

Nope, sorry but I verified that:
      
mail-sources:

((imap :server "emuc05-home" :mailbox "/var/mail/pw105345"
       :user "pw105345" :dontexpunge t)
 (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

gnus-secondary-select-methods:

((nnml "")
 (nnimap "emuc05-home")
 (nnmbox "emsend"
         (nnmbox-mbox-file "~/Mail/emsend")
         (nnmbox-get-new-mail nil)))

all I get in the *message* buffer is

  Retrieving newsgroup: nnmbox+emsend:AM-OS...
  Can't select group

what I'm wondering is where dose the "emsend" come from?

     Peter

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Peter Weiss 

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Re: opening mbox

[Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich]

>>>>> On 10 Jul 2000 16:37:56 +0200, Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> said:

>>>>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:20:08 +0200, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) said:
Kai> Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich
Kai> <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> writes:

>>> I'm still not confirm with the gnus way: How do I access a
>>> global inbox (file) without changing anything?

Kai> What is it that you don't want to change?  You'll need to change your
Kai> ~/.gnus or ~/.emacs file to do that...

>>> I've added the following entry to my mail-sources:
>>> 
>>> (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

Kai> Maybe there's a syntax error?  Can you show us the exact snippet from
Kai> ~/.gnus that does this, and/or show us the exact value of mail-sources
Kai> (with C-u M-: mail-sources RET for example)?

Peter> Nope, sorry but I verified that:
      
Peter> mail-sources:

Peter> ((imap :server "emuc05-home" :mailbox "/var/mail/pw105345"
Peter>        :user "pw105345" :dontexpunge t)
Peter>  (file :path "/net/sunweb/export/am-os/Mail/incomming"))

Peter> gnus-secondary-select-methods:

Peter> ((nnml "")
Peter>  (nnimap "emuc05-home")
Peter>  (nnmbox "emsend"
Peter>          (nnmbox-mbox-file "~/Mail/emsend")
Peter>          (nnmbox-get-new-mail nil)))

Peter> all I get in the *message* buffer is

Peter>   Retrieving newsgroup: nnmbox+emsend:AM-OS...
Peter>   Can't select group

Peter> what I'm wondering is where dose the "emsend" come from?

Well, now the incomming file is read, but it is split up! How do prevent
this??

I only want to access this file as an mbox file read-only, extract some
messages to disk not more, esp. no splitting or copying to local disk.

    Peter


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Moosstrasse 7                fax    +49 (0)8151 / 991 - 229
D-82319 Starnberg            mobil  0172/ 83 79 125
http://www.class.de          mailto:Peter.Weiss@Class.de

Re: opening mbox

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Weiss - Sun Germany ENS Engineer Mission Critical - Munich  <Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com> writes:

> Well, now the incomming file is read, but it is split up! How do prevent
> this??
> 
> I only want to access this file as an mbox file read-only, extract some
> messages to disk not more, esp. no splitting or copying to local disk.

Mail-sources have the following purpose: when Gnus fetches mail,
messages are retrieved from the source and then they are deleted from
the source.

If you want to use Gnus to read the contents of a file as a group,
without changing the file, mail-sources is the wrong feature.

Instead, use `G f' to create an nndoc group which points to the file.

kai
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I like BOTH kinds of music.