From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8470 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Slackat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Learning gnus for email only Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:48:23 +0100 Organization: Front National [http://www.frontnational.com] Message-ID: <87lkklq5zc.fsf@azurservers.com> References: <1167115181.099537.35020@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1167635655.197063.70530@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1167716422.116591.181630@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167723714 13369 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2007 07:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 07:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 02 08:41:54 2007 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 4.50) id 1H1eHN-0005pr-RS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H1eHN-0002Um-AJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:41:49 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp16-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.gnus X-Operating-System: Slackware GNU/Linux --current X-Homepage: http://azurservers.com/ X-GUARANTEE4: harmful content should be reported to abuse@azurservers.com X-GUARANTEE3: Azurservers.com publishes SPF records and any spam or otherwise X-GUARANTEE2: content or attachments when sent from @azurservers.com. X-GUARANTEE1: This email is Guaranteed to have been free of any malevolent X-Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" -- As You Like It, II.7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rJq6R4tzZbm8xdf3mbh2y3Iwmbo= Original-Lines: 113 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Jan 2007 07:48:52 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.242.110.54 Original-X-Trace: 1167720532 news-1.free.fr 312 82.242.110.54:47123 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:93514 gnu.emacs.gnus:78654 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org 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:8470 Archived-At: "harel barzilai" writes: > Thanks again for the updated gnus tutorial web page...I think I have > most of the "Set-up" > figured out except the mail source..and the tutorial has a broken link > for more information > on mail sources, unfortunately.. > > The tutorial in http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/Mail.html#Mail I was able > to follow until then, and so far I've put in my .gnus.el the following > > (setq user-mail-address "usera@harelbarzilai.org") > (setq user-full-name "Harel's Test Account") > > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmaildir "")) > > (setq smtpmail-local-domain "harelbarzilai.org") > (setq smtpmail-sendto-domain "harelbarzilai.org") > (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems > > though the internal "CCC Anyone out there who can give more info?" > comment next to listing "nnmaildir" , made by the author(s) of the > Tutorial has me a tad worried.. The broken link is to "See Mail Source > Specifiers (Gnus)," which points at > http://my.gnus.org/gnus/Mail-Source-Specifiers.html#Mail-Source-Specifiers" > which doesn't exist. Perhaps I should notify the tutorial authors? In > any case, the only examples they give for mail-sources are of the form, > > (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "frumple" :user "jrl"))) > > Let me preface my next and last question by saying: I must confess I've > been living in a cave as far as pop servers..have just ssh'd into shell > and used "Mail" or rmail since 1989..emacs fan > since then (well rmail plus university's preinstalled software, plus > now gmail) but never > ever used outlook eudora etc, only shell or emacs commands..now my > question: somewhere in its docs dreamhost tells me "mail.mydomain.com" > (or in this case "mail.harelbarzilai.org") is the pop mail server..but > dont' I somehow need to tell gnus to go looking at ~/Maildir/ for mail? > I'm running gnus from inside emacs, of course and emacs from the shell, > and the shell I'm accessing via ssh via a simple text terminal > program..I know the web browser says it can't find > mail.harelbarzilai.org....so pardon me if I'm confused > but since dreamhost (though ways I don't know and have never needed to > know) have all my > incoming mail delivered to /home/username/Maildir/ also known as > ~/Maildir/ , for > each "user" I create for my account, don't I need to just tell gnus to > go look at ~/Maildir? > I think by default it looks in (and/or creates) ~/Mail/ ...how can I > change this to ~/Maildir? > > Since the link is broken and I don't know elisp formatting I'd need the > exact line to copy > paste into .gnus.el instead of the above "frumple" example... Sorry if > I'm missing something > but I've read the my.gnus.org tutorial chapter 7 entirely though > including 7.2 (and > earlier portions which gave user-mail-address etc) and need this last > piece to finish > the set-up of .gnus.el for reading email, it seems. > > Wishing everyone a safe and fulfilling 2007 :-) > > Harel Personally I use fetchmail to bring in mail from pop servers Basically I use my own azurservers.com for mail, but it's nice to have backup facilities, so storing it in /root and ignoring the groans from the system: '.fetchmailrc' poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'william.henderson' password 'PASSWORD' is 'billhenderson' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'billhenderson' password 'PASSWORD' is 'billhenderson' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'slackrat' password 'PASSWORD' is 'slackrat' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'daveycrockett' password 'PASSWORD' is 'daveycrockett' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'joannevalliere' password 'PASSWORD' is 'joannevalliere' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'lysrossitier' password 'PASSWORD' is 'lysrossitier' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'meggydupres' password 'PASSWORD' is 'meggydupres' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'avatarazur' password 'PASSWORD' is 'avatarazur' here ## NOTHER-POP-SERVER.COM #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'slackrat' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'henderson_we' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'daveycrockett' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here ================= /etc.rc.d/rc.local starts fetchmail # Bring in the Mail echo " " echo INFORMATION: Starting FetchMail /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -d 600 -K ======================== /home/inconnu/.gnus or .emacs since I'm not fussy ;; WHERE ARE THE INBOUND MESSAGES STORED AND WHERE SHOULD GNUS PUT THEM ;; ##################################################################### (setq nnmail-spool-file '( (file :path "/var/spool/mail/inconnu") (directory :path "/home/inconnu/Mail") ) -- Slackrat AKA Bill Henderson [No _4Q_ for direct email] emacs/gnus config [http://azurservers.com/gnus]