From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14003 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting up a nnmbox server Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:04:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6evdy05.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87k4qojjl0.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87zkzi3gjd.fsf@newsguy.com> <877hmkjhkp.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87hbll360u.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275638814 16683 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2010 08:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:06:54 +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 04 10:06:53 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 1OKRvZ-0007iF-6u for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKRvY-00013D-Hb for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38048 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKRvS-00010L-Uu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKRvO-0001LV-HF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKRvO-0001L6-Az for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKRvK-0007bH-SZ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:38 +0200 Original-Received: from eps142.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:38 +0200 Original-Received: from aluaces by eps142.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:06:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: eps142.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AcTR/JTO67Lyq2We05EfWnOCreo= 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:14003 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > 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... My fault. I was not aware that system mail followed that convention of the users emptying their mailboxes when reading them. > 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. Thanks again! Indeed, the manual is so comprehensive that I find new things every time I read it with a new pointer. -- Alberto