From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14015 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Problems incorporating old mail Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:43:43 +0800 Message-ID: <87sk4l5acg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d3vrld8a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871vc7s9ug.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87fx0nbcmh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wrtzqr5o.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87y6ef8gf5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874oh1qygu.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 1276829041 10098 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 02:44:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:44:01 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 04:44:00 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 1OPRYm-0001u9-KR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:44:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPRYl-0001xz-SH for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44222 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPRYh-0001vs-S9 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPRYg-0007M0-I4 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPRYg-0007Ls-Aq for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:43:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPRYe-0001qD-Ow for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:43:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.121.193.196 ([123.121.193.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:43:52 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 123.121.193.196 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:43:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.193.196 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/GKuyS30n1ezUG9SvsjLjOWRHTc= 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:14015 Archived-At: Alberto Luaces 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