From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14002 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting up a nnmbox server Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:42:25 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87hbll360u.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k4qojjl0.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87zkzi3gjd.fsf@newsguy.com> <877hmkjhkp.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275486176 12056 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2010 13:42:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:42:56 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 15:42:52 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OJoDa-0004Bf-DH for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJoDZ-0002d3-Tk for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37802 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJoDT-0002Om-6x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJoDQ-0004PR-EB for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJoDQ-0004Og-8G for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJoDN-00047d-BZ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:42:37 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:42:37 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:42:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pAghW5HjhqRKhgdvebYSZTm56oc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:14002 Archived-At: Alberto Luaces writes: > Thank you, Harry. It seems I got confused with the name > "nnmbox". Following your instructions (G-f) and creating a nndoc server > that point to my system mail (/var/mail/${USER}) works fine. In > addition, I restarted gnus and the group was still there, so maybe this > is enough for me. It wasn't clear in your original post the the mbox file you were after was actually your system mail box. In that case, most of us who read our mail regularly with gnus would have gnus slurp that mail regularly and present it with gnus, in what ever backend we prefer... Getting gnus to slurp your system mail box requires something like this: (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/reader"))) But once gnus slurps it, the system mailbox is then empty... not like using G-f (nndoc). And the messages are stored under ~/News in format of your choosing. You'll need to study gnus manual a bit more to understand how to make gnus present you mail in a way you like. I've used the nnml backend for yrs... others prefer nnmaildir, or etc. There are several more to choose from, but nnml is one of the most versatile. Any of them can be found in the gnus manual.