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Greenhouse) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting up gnus: read on local, store remote (but not on mailserver) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:03:08 +0000 Message-ID: <87zjyso2qb.fsf@riseup.net> References: <5896e2dc-a264-4ea7-b250-9e95cfaf01a2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361804625 20762 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 15:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:03:45 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Mon Feb 25 16:04:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zb1-0006P7-Jn for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:04:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zag-0007UB-TJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zac-0007T5-7I for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zaZ-0001uq-1J for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:03:38 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zaY-0001uc-Q5 for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U9zap-0006E9-Ic for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:03:51 +0100 Original-Received: from tor18.anonymizer.ccc.de ([31.172.30.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:03:51 +0100 Original-Received: from wgreenhouse by tor18.anonymizer.ccc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:03:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tor18.anonymizer.ccc.de X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JZnxUBtM0cS3oz64qIMtIhO7wkQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16131 Archived-At: Hi Martin, supermiri123-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes: > Hi gnurus! > > Since I have a new job, I need to modify my gnus setup, and don't know > how. I have the following: > > 1) mail is coming from some server with limited storage space (in > fact, not enough) > > 2) I have enough storage space on a machine I can ssh to, but where I > do not have a reasonably recent emacs (No root rights. Emacs version > there is 21.) However, this is in a local network (at a university), > so ssh should not be too slow. > > 3) My email archive (which I depend on for every day work) has just > about 2GB currently. > > I would like to use my local emacs with gnus to read email, but have > it stored on the other computer, so I can always access it, even if > I'm not in my office. > > Is there an effective solution known, or do I have to experiment? > > Many thanks, > > Martin A maildir might be a good choice. The `nnmaildir' backend (info "(gnus) Maildir") can use a remote filesystem, e.g. (setq gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "mail" (directory "/rsyncc:user-3I8OyKyBCfCmcwpypvFeBw@public.gmane.org:/path/to/maildir/") (get-new-mail t))) The above would use Gnus to incorporate mail using whatever methods you picked in `mail-sources', and store them in a remote maildir accessed with rsync (you can use any TRAMP filename, e.g. ssh:, scpc:, etc.). If you have the ability to install packages on the remote host, you could also install offlineimap or something, and skip the `get-new-mail t' in this example. -- Regards, WGG