From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81994 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: N00b begging quick input. Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:39:58 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341215550 31204 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2012 07:52:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:52:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30264@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 02 09:52:29 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 1SlbQr-0003MO-AF for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:52:29 +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 1SlbQZ-0000Hi-Ee; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:52:11 -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 1SlbQY-0000HS-4m for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:52:10 -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 1SlbQW-0000Cj-3B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SlbQU-0006JU-20 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:52:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlbQP-0002fm-Jd for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:52:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wRrpVqqRXoof6vZ76XJ3zi5POlQ= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81994 Archived-At: >>>>> DiagonalArg : > 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. Well, there is an nnbabyl backend. But on a quick try it doesn't seem to be able to open multiple folders. All nnbabyl mail groups are directed to ~/RMAIL unless I'm mistaken...? I created a group with the following commands in the *Group* buffer: G m noob RET nnbabyl RET and the result was an empty RMAIL file in the home directory. Also, it probably isn't the local backend that sees the most use. That would be nnml (which helps you nothing at all). > I would like the same functionality until I can figure out how to use > gnus to change everything over to MailDir. Hm... I started out writing this response with the premise that you could open your existing RMAIL files as nnbabyl groups and then open nnmailbox folders and `B c' your old emails over. But... since nnbabyl only operates on ~/RMAIL then that idea is out. Sorry! > I don't want to get blindsided by incorrect expiration that might > delete mails that I keep until I can act on them. Expiration isn't turned on by default. You have to explicitly set it up. So no danger there.