From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14125 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Merciadri Luca Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence? Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:38:55 +0200 Organization: ULg Message-ID: <8739xq5sy8.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291898696 2465 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 12:44:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:44:56 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 13:44:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQfrb-0000iQ-Et for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:44:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQfra-00067a-Hn for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:44:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iWk0KQh0fcldOcDaz+HIcdifJOc= Original-Lines: 114 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.197.101.67 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=_ZSZ`R^RiV0@:6iQ9Q>ag7YSB=nbEKnk; LmUonk; gP`2B`G2cTG; Mn1LGVLjEY^2Y8[=LHD=0P^Y49g\V1BeNHO95Z@8`56Df90QTU]INdXZ1>l@lfINYh[a2 Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84364 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14125 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I like to understand how things work. My Gnus works perfectly now, but I still do not understand how it can work. You might file the description of my .emacs and .gnus files at http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/emacs.php. 1. I am personally mixing nnml and nnmail. It looks like I am only using nnml, because == (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/mail/merciadriluca") == seems to do no effect, as I do not even have a `merciadriluca' directory in /var/mail/. 2. What's the interest of gnus-select-method? Is it the `primary' method? I think so, but then, what is the interest of defining a secondary method? What is the difference in their order? I define == (setq gnus-select-method '((nntp "news.stuff.com"))) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) == but I do not know what they do exactly. 3. If I define == (setq message-directory "~/.Mail/") (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail/") == what will be the difference between both concepts? 4. To me, == (setq mail-sources (list '(directory :path "~/Mail/" :suffix "" ) ) ) == simply tells Gnus to fetch e-mails at ~/Mail/: it tells it `okay, messages are there. There is a MUA which brings them there, and do not try to understand it further.' Am I right? 5. Is there an interesting in defining iso-8859-15 as a charset, such as in == (defun mm-read-charset (prompt) "Return a charset." 'iso-8859-15) (setq gnus-default-posting-charset (quote iso-8859-15)) == ? 6. I use == (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it); For message-mode (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it); ditto (setq send-mail-command 'smtpmail-send-it); For mail-mode (Rmail) == but why do I need the three ones to make the whole stuff work? 7. What's the interest of `my-signature' in == (setq message-signature 'my-signature) (setq gnus-signature-separator '("^-- $")) == ? 8. I set == (setq nntp-authinfo-file ".someauthfile.gpg") (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials ".someauthfile.gpg") == but what's the difference between them? 9. Providing that the whole stuff works as it is, what is the scheme which is done when I want to fetch e-mails, or when I want to send an e-mail, both through Gnus? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. - -- If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 iEYEARECAAYFAkvxfy8ACgkQM0LLzLt8Mhw2qgCdEAgM6mr7iJYwrfziCz4311B8 Sa8An3M5fS4VmQSjsSziyetSBZMn0bCG =RuGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----