From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4014 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Converting to Gnus Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:06:53 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4nekmpbk2q.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nbri0i25g.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670036 21455 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:13:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:06 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 0L00rC6nXa1+vDEC7lvaIQhiSUzH8KKZ3Uzi81HxDUJBv7uL6l X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vfv9uHHS72Zgt2b9lgKBia6Ukx0= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4155 Original-Lines: 47 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4155 Tue Jan 17 17:33:06 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4014 Archived-At: 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