From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: Converting to Gnus
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:06:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nekmpbk2q.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrncgq58j.php.neil@news.ops.mine.nu>
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004, neil@suespammers.org wrote:
> [Gnus] certainly seems to me to be the most configurable news/mail
> system I've ever seen. Perhaps even a little daunting!
I think it's fun. Gnus is the only MUA I know that is fun to learn
and extend, not just to play with the Preferences dialog.
>> For both your fetchmail and procmail setups, I recommend getting Gnus
>> running without them and then gradually converting if you don't know
>> Gnus well yet. It will be a less stressful conversion.
>
> Is there a "best" way of doing this? For example, most mail
> utillities/MUA's and news-agents I've used before assume ~/Mail and
> ~/News as their default directories. Am I right in saying that Gnus
> prefers to have sole access to its own directories?
Not necessarily, but certainly you can change those defaults.
> Therefore, if I do for example:
>
> (setq gnus-directory "~/.News/")
> (setq message-directory "~/.Mail/")
>
> how can I then incorporate my old, previously read mail (which is in
> ~/Mail) into my new Gnus setup?
>
> (I have rather a lot of old news, stored in some rather large mbox
> files.)
I think this was answered separately.
>> If you plan to run something else that will access the mail outside of
>> Gnus, especially for writing (e.g. an IMAP server), you should use
>> nnmaildir. It's built for concurrent access. nnml is fast, sure, but
>> nnmaildir is not significantly slower in my experience.
>
> I would like to plan for that eventuality. Although at present I only
> have POP3 mail sources, I'm planning to get an account at fastmail.fm,
> from which I can use IMAP. Can I mix the two backends, dependant on
> mail source?
I'm not sure what you mean. You can use IMAP for real (through the
nnimap backend), or you can use it as a mail source to another
backend. Is that what you are asking?
Ted
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2004-07-28 1:00 Neil Woods
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2004-08-01 16:06 ` Neil Woods
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