N00b begging quick input.

N00b begging quick input.

[DiagonalArg]

Well, I must say that the Gnus manual is utterly overwhelming!  I can at least 
connect to usenet, but setting it up for mail is a bit harder as I can't screw
thing up in the process.  I wonder if someone can give me a quick pointer of
where I need to get started for the following situation:

I am using RMAIL with <<many>> files in Babyl format.  Each individual that I
correspond with has their own file.  Once read, I sort the emails to their proper
file by hand.  Mail comes from the local spool.  I now need to shift over to 
gnus.  I would like the same functionality until I can figure out how to use gnus
to change everything over to MailDir.  I don't want to get blindsided by 
incorrect expiration that might delete mails that I keep until I can act on them.

How in god's (pick a convenient one) name do I do this??  I am so lost in details
that I am having trouble figuring how to start.  Reading the manual linearly is 
not working, which is what I tried after jumping around failed. Any chance
someone could give me a couple of pointers so I could begin to step into this?

Thanks all in advance -
/DA.

(By the way, this needs to be quick.  emacs 23 is long out, and I don't want to 
shift over to the destructive mbox format that RMAIL is now using.)

Re: N00b begging quick input.

[DiagonalArg]

Carson Chittom <carson <at> wistly.net> writes:

> DiagonalArg <gmane.boxy <at> xoxy.net> writes:
> 
> > I am using RMAIL with <<many>> files in Babyl format.  
> 
> Take a look at the sections on nnbabyl[1] and document groups[2], I
> think.  (The index is your friend.)

Thanks for the tip, Carson.

It appears that what I need is some combination of nneething (which
acts on directory hierarchies) and nnbabyl.  I am not clear from the
docs whether nneething will properly identify babyl files as
containing many messages, or whether it will treat the whole file as a
single "message".  I am trying to test it out using a directory
(~/BABYL) containing a couple of babyl files:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnbabyl "Inbox"
                                       (nnbabyl-get-new-mail nil))
                                      (nneething "BABYL"
                                       (nneething-include-files "~/BABYL/"))))

but the nneething group is not being created for mysterious reasons.
Gnus just beeps at me.

/DA.

> [1] http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html#SEC193
> [2] http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html#SEC218 

Re: N00b begging quick input.

[Carson Chittom]

DiagonalArg <gmane.boxy@xoxy.net> writes:

> I am using RMAIL with <<many>> files in Babyl format.  

Take a look at the sections on nnbabyl[1] and document groups[2], I
think.  (The index is your friend.)

[1] http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html#SEC193
[2] http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html#SEC218