From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7596 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: For the complete novice how to get set up for mail in gnus Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:17:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5ifyhomg1y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151583491 23799 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2006 12:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 29 14:18:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvT9-0005A0-97 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:18:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvT8-0003Ll-N4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvT5-0003LV-Jj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvT3-0003LH-Uk for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvT3-0003LD-R6 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fvvfb-0001Wq-K9 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvSq-00056J-II for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:17:45 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:17:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAAAUCAMAAAAKqMsNAAAAwFBMVEUfIB4qLCk8PjxAQT9E RkNHSUZKS0lOUE1SVFFWV1VWWFVaW1lcXltfYV5kZWNpa2hsbmtub21vcW5ydHF3eXZ5e3h7fXp+ f32Agn+EhoOGiIWKjImNjouTlZKWmJWZm5icnpugop+jpaKnqaarraqwsq6ztbG4ure7vbq+wL3D xcLJy8jP0c3R09DT1dLV19TY2tfe4Nzf4d7h5ODj5eLn6ebq7Ont7+vv8e3y9PHz9fL19/T3+fb4 +/f8/vv+//wkcdDPAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1gIaAyMPYYdloAAAAZlJ REFUOMudVH9TgkAQxWhqGBrqSueSQM2QUgQERxKBt9//W3V3IJKZf7A33I+927ePtxwaESWrveip oD6mEW3m4LkYbr77AWAXZ/NFaDkD+3Hfi8H7IjR8PS90fPI+ALEF6JkRFrd4m10/nH1fAvBmlAxR OEx7+cCV6O10OnQuAODgfE4qACVvw7dVPaylhbVPnMDmnNFWiSiNRDult1M1+APbtses9Yf+b4Yz 7rxKEUlGdzcwTuqceiqyhq07k6eqQplcm8Bzpv15qSo/8DjP5XRlEXktM49L3AlTJjgWJtE40Cjw O7YnvLOhbjEWSwr3URSLeDwlhDK3DtKnCAh8lA8Evm40aE0tx6mciWloeKgFlI8pfe4Lk00wgFGQ WWro6t7oXWsgY1ithuo2vCmGSiSmEWNLqgHc1E1oXR0B5llbORwB8okddZIc91UVUHrYjWCeKLSl 79D6Ss/i630FkE6WLvPvgvOC/ALAn88UzWUi3BXgHyv3+kXAv7eRdgbIKHm07QkAjMJpAL6Mev6R BMJOFrpEH4AfGukf4kwTGH0AAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/O52oj8IwVW69PIbbQSYCjUeQvI= 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:7596 Archived-At: Don Saklad writes: > How might the complete novice figure out how to get set up to > initiate mail in gnus knowing very little to nearly nothing or > nothing about the usual preliminary steps to step one?... > > It needs to be a less wordy explanation in a better layout > for those of us with symptoms of attention deficit disorder. > > The stuff at > http://www.google.com/search?q=mail+gnus > doesn't hit the mark of clearing up the > many ambiguities about backends. > > How do you explain backends in a manner that the complete novice > can go about identifying their predicament and figure out their > respective next steps without the current struggle of the > steep learning curve?... > > Some day in the future we'll have real computers and won't have > to know this stuff. Read this short tutorial: http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/ -- Leon