From: Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Utterly unable to read mail with Gnus
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:06:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp8sk0bjhvc.fsf@usca1uw-JZWWPM1.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hhorwfo.fsf@blackhawk.localdomain>
Zachary Kline <zkline@speedpost.net> writes:
> Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:
>> I ran getmail, storing my mail in a maildir directory ~/Maildir. From
>> what I can tell, this should be all I need to do:
>>
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> '((nnmaildir "mymail" (directory "~/Maildir"))))
> I believe you need another level of directory in this case. Don't point
> Gnus to the maildir directly, point it to a directory containing the
> maildir(s) you want to read, and nothing else.
> You should then see the individual maildirs show up in the server
> buffer.
Yeah, I figured this out last night, when I was experimenting with the
nnmh backend and found that it also expects to be given a directory that
contains all of one's MH stores as subdirectories.
For the life of me, I still can't get the nnmbox backend to recognize my
~/mbox file, but I guess I can live without it.
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