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          Thank you Adam Sjo/gren !

          Regrettably that beautiful simplifed instructive
          bit is still above the level of instruction I need
          for people having minimal to no expertise or
          dyslexic ADHD short attention symptoms.


Adam Sj=F8gren wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:45:56 GMT, Don wrote:
>
> > How do you set up a gnus email dotfile if you use gnus for usenet
> > already?... for people with very very minimal expertise to no
> > expertise regarding dotfiles, lisp, programming or have
> > dyslexic, ADHD, short attention symptoms?...
>
> The answer to your question depends on wherefrom said email is to be
> fetched.
>
> The minimal example of a .gnus for this purpose is this:
>
>  ; Gnus for email, basic setup:
>
>  ;  Change (nnnil "") to (nntp "your.news.server") if you want to read
>  ;  news as well:
>  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>
>  ;  Get email from the local machine:
>  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
>
> Email will be put in the group called nnml:mail.misc, to which the
> user should subscribe.
>
> This assumes that the email one wants to read is present at the
> computer on which Gnus is run.
>
> If that is not the case, Gnus must be told where to get the email and
> by what means. Please note that this is not specific to Gnus but a
> general trait of all email-programmes.
>
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam
>
> --
>  "Halleluja og hurlumhej"                                     Adam Sj=F8g=
ren
>                                                          asjo@koldfront.dk