* linux system mail - information overload
@ 2006-10-23 15:22 Hadron Quark
2006-10-23 16:02 ` Hadron Quark
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From: Hadron Quark @ 2006-10-23 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Could some kind soul please nudge me in the right direction to set gnus
up to read my Ubuntu "system emails". By these I mean the ones in
/var/mail or in /var/spool/mail - A google provides so much information
I cant really get started with any confidence and am even lost at
differentiating between the two.
I already have fetchmail using procmail to publish incoming pop3 mails
and mailing lists to maildir format.
How to see "localhost" email?
Any terminology/education much appreciated.
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* Re: linux system mail - information overload
2006-10-23 15:22 linux system mail - information overload Hadron Quark
@ 2006-10-23 16:02 ` Hadron Quark
2006-10-23 17:19 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Hadron Quark @ 2006-10-23 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
> Could some kind soul please nudge me in the right direction to set gnus
> up to read my Ubuntu "system emails". By these I mean the ones in
> /var/mail or in /var/spool/mail - A google provides so much information
> I cant really get started with any confidence and am even lost at
> differentiating between the two.
>
> I already have fetchmail using procmail to publish incoming pop3 mails
> and mailing lists to maildir format.
>
> How to see "localhost" email?
>
> Any terminology/education much appreciated.
ok, I tried following the manual & added/edited this to my private
.gnus.el
,----
| (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/hadron")
| (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail/nnml")
|
| (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost"))
|
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
| '((nnmaildir "MyMail" (directory "~/Mail/"))
| (nnml "")))
`----
Gnus now shows this group:
nnml+/var/spool/mail/hadron:mail.misc
But when I try to select it I get these messages:
,----
| Retrieving newsgroup: nnml+/var/spool/mail/hadron:mail.misc...
| Loading disp-table...done
| Loading gnus-ml...done
| gnus-server-opened: Trying to require a method that doesn't exist
`----
Any ideas? How to debug further?
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* Re: linux system mail - information overload
2006-10-23 16:02 ` Hadron Quark
@ 2006-10-23 17:19 ` Reiner Steib
2006-10-25 13:50 ` Hadron Quark
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-10-23 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Mon, Oct 23 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:
> | (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/hadron")
`nnmail-spool-file' is obsolete, see it's doc string. And it's value
should _not_ be a filename, but something like '((file)) anyhow.
See (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") on how to set
`mail-sources'.
Bye, Reiner.
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2006-10-23 17:19 ` Reiner Steib
@ 2006-10-25 13:50 ` Hadron Quark
2006-10-25 14:22 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-10-25 15:47 ` Reiner Steib
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hadron Quark @ 2006-10-25 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 23 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:
>
>> | (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/hadron")
>
> `nnmail-spool-file' is obsolete, see it's doc string. And it's value
> should _not_ be a filename, but something like '((file)) anyhow.
>
> See (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") on how to set
> `mail-sources'.
>
> Bye, Reiner.
Reiner, is there some "quick" way you generate these info lines which
can be exec'd to bring up the relevant info page?
e.g do you generate this using a hot key:
(info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers")
or just enter it by hand when you refer people to info?
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* Re: linux system mail - information overload
2006-10-25 13:50 ` Hadron Quark
@ 2006-10-25 14:22 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-10-25 15:47 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Johan Bockgård @ 2006-10-25 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
> e.g do you generate this using a hot key:
>
> (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers")
,----
| Info-copy-current-node-name is an interactive compiled Lisp function
| in `info.el'.
| It is bound to w, c, <menu-bar> <Info> <Copy Node Name>.
| (Info-copy-current-node-name &optional ARG)
|
| Put the name of the current Info node into the kill ring. The name
| of the Info file is prepended to the node name in parentheses.
| With a zero prefix arg, put the name inside a function call to `info'.
`----
(Emacs 22)
--
Johan Bockgård
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* Re: linux system mail - information overload
2006-10-25 13:50 ` Hadron Quark
2006-10-25 14:22 ` Johan Bockgård
@ 2006-10-25 15:47 ` Reiner Steib
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-10-25 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, Oct 25 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:
> Reiner, is there some "quick" way you generate these info lines which
> can be exec'd to bring up the relevant info page?
>
> e.g do you generate this using a hot key:
>
> (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers")
>
> or just enter it by hand when you refer people to info?
,----[ <f1> f rs-info-insert-current-node RET ]
| rs-info-insert-current-node is an interactive Lisp function in `rs-info.el'.
| (rs-info-insert-current-node STYLE &optional NOINSERT)
|
| Insert reference to current Info node using STYLE in buffer.
|
| If NOINSERT (the prefix), return the string instead.
|
| Possible styles (must be a symbol):
| - `emacs' (Emacs style): (info "(file)node")
| - `emacs-press': as `emacs' plus a note about `C-x C-e'
| - `emacs-keys-goto' (Emacs key sequence): `C-h i g (file)node RET'
| - `emacs-keys-menu' (Emacs menu key sequence): `C-h i d m file RET m node RET'
| - `custom-manual': ":link '(custom-manual "(file)node")" for `defcustom'
| - `info-link': ":link '(info-link "(file)node")" for `defcustom'
| - `texinfo-ref-full': A full "@ref{...}" for Texinfo
| - `texinfo-ref': "@ref{...}" for Texinfo within the same file
| - `gnus' (the Gnus home brewed style): <info://file/node> (deprecated)
| - `gnome' (GNOME style): <info:foo#bar_baz>
| - `kde' (KDE style): <info:(foo)bar baz>
| - `konqueror' (Konqueror style): <info:/foo/bar baz>
|
| When used interactivly, the default is taken from `rs-info-style-alist'.
|
| For `emacs' and `emacs-press' style see the variable
| `rs-info-goto-node-string'.
`----
,----[ `rs-info.el' ]
| ;; rs-info.el -- Some info related functions
| ;; $Id: rs-info.el,v 1.27 2005/09/02 20:51:30 ste Exp $
|
| ;; Author: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
| ;; Keywords: info
| ;; X-URL: http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/rs-info.el
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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