From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23408 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Fresh Emacs and pgnus on Win95 box Date: 18 Jun 1999 13:53:27 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161146 1824 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02645 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:00:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB20315; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:56:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:57:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19869 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:56:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gatekeeper4 (internet1-chi.monsanto.com [204.233.233.43]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02517 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:55:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gatekeeper4; id NAA26652; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from unknown(137.35.49.136) by gatekeeper4.monsanto.com via smap (V4.2) id xma026597; Fri, 18 Jun 99 13:55:43 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Zippy: My haircut is totally traditional! In-Reply-To: Shaun Lipscombe's message of "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:36:02 +0100" Original-Lines: 45 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070088 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.88) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23408 >>>>> "SL" == Shaun Lipscombe writes: SL> 1. I had a d:\emacs\lisp\gnus, when I installed emacs. I deleted SL> this and put pgnus, under d:\emacs\site-lisp\pgnus. This didn't SL> work as it wasn't in the load path. I therefore moved it to SL> d:\emacs\lisp\gnus, where it worked. How to I get the site-lisp SL> directory to add its directories to the load-path? Kai suggested one mechanism. I like this one: (add-hook 'load-path (expand-file-name "d:\\emacs\\site-lisp\\pgnus")) I don't think you really need the expand-file-name, but it never hurts to be sure. Make sure to use double backslashes as singles look like escape sequences to emacs' string parsing. The other option is to use forward slash, as NTemacs understands the difference. SL> 2. How do I proceed? I mean all my old mail, is on c:\emacs\Mail. SL> Shall I just copy my .emacs and .gnus here copy my Mail from SL> within Gnus or will this cause problems? There will be a lot of differences between versions of Gnus, so blindly copying .gnus may not work too well. SL> 3. How do I find out what variables have changes etc? for instance I SL> now get prompted for a POP password with nnmail. I am sure there SL> are some things in my .gnus and .emacs that are obsolete, because SL> I have had problems in the past, migrating to pgnus. To be thorough, you can load gnus and then C-h v on each variable in your initialization routines. A better bet is to create the minimal installation for Gnus (define a gnus-select-method) and add customization as you need it. Since you were running a mail method, you will want to look at the information on mail-source. To get rolling with nnml, I think you need the something like the following (assuming nnml and a POP connection for mail): (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "") mail-sources '((pop :server "chevax.ecs.umass.edu" :user "jvinson" :password "secret" ; Only use this if you want ; to store your password ))) Mail-sources lets you have multiple sources for mail. Have fun!