Re: Getting started reading mail stored in local maildir

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I want to try out gnus, but have got nowhere so far. I would greatly 
> appreciate instruction on how to read mail stored locally in maildirs.
>
> My email is downloaded by getmail, and stored by procmail into a variety 
> of maildirs stored under ~/email/. However in order to start playing with 
> gnus, I have created the directory ~/Maildir containing a single 
> maildir-format directory:
>
> ~> ls ~/Maildir/dan-mail/
> cur  new  tmp
>
> My ~/.gnus.el contains
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnmaildir "" (directory "/home/dan/Maildir/"))))
>
> When I start gnus I enter a (Group Plugged) buffer which is empty 
> with the message "No more unread newsgroups". When I hit "L" I see
>
>        0: nndraft:queue 
>        0: nndraft:drafts 
>
> When I hit "^" I enter a (Server Plugged) buffer containing
>
>  {nnfolder:archive} (closed)
>
>  RET on that line results in a message "Connecting to archive ... done", after
> which "L" displays
>
>      {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
>
>
> This isn't the first time I've lost a few hours trying to get started 
> with gnus, so I am giving up and sending this (admittedly pathetic) email.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Dan
>
>

I used to use local Maildir so know it works. I cant remember what i did
though, but did you try here?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UsingProcmailWithGnus#toc3

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