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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems incorporating old mail
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:43:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk4l5acg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874oh1qygu.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es>

Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> I did this, and got a maildir folder, but I'm embarrassed to say that I
>> don't know how to get these messages into gnus, either.
>
> For importing a maildir folder, you have to have set up the mail
> backend, nnml, as a primary or secondary source of mail like this:
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>                   '(nnml ""))
>
> After that, you specify that you own a maildir folder setting a source
> for nnml:
>
> (setq mail-sources
>       '(
>       (maildir :path "Path/to/your/folder"
>                 :subdirs ("cur" "new"))
>                 ))

Brilliant! That did the trick. Whatever the original problem was, this
works around it nicely.

I appreciate the help,
E

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16  6:10 Eric Abrahamsen
2010-06-16  7:41 ` Alberto Luaces
2010-06-16  8:33   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-06-16  9:10     ` Alberto Luaces
2010-06-16  9:39       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-06-17 18:57         ` Alberto Luaces
2010-06-18  2:43           ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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