From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2889 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Getting starting with gnus for mail Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:54:32 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669157 16711 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:22 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2zBGIlTA6fApFCFUPoq0Ayydv6c= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.129.207 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1061160872 12.211.129.207 (Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:54:32 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:54:32 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3030 Original-Lines: 29 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3030 Tue Jan 17 17:31:22 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2889 Archived-At: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Eric Schwartz wrote: > Joe Davison writes: > > > That much I (think I) understand. I've not yet done enough reading > > / experimenting to pick a backend myself. I'm in much the same > > place you are -- I use Apple's mail.app on OS X (10.2.6) which uses > > mbox format. I don't want to screw up that file, because my wife > > also reads the mail, but she only uses mail.app. > > Can you do that without manually importing mail from each of your > folders each time? > I don't know. That's what I need to figure out. When I worked (I'm now "retired") I used (X)emacs/VM along with Sun's MailTool. VM moved the mail from /var/mail to a local file, but I could set up Mailtool to use the same file, so I could easily switch between the two tools as needed. That was great. I also used Gnus to read newsgroups. I kept reading about the ability to use Gnus for both, and having a single interface seemed appealing. Now I need to figure out if it can really be done. I'm beginning to suspect I'd be better off forgetting Gnus for mail, and going with VM, if I want to share the mail folders with other tools, since, as I understand it, the basic file structure of news and mail differs so much. joe