From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4004 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Woods Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Converting to Gnus Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:00:42 -0000 Organization: Huh? Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670022 21378 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:13:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:05 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de zqBz3EPAzvCU+R6O/nXRxwN3lZGyYuiQSUnApNlHwNR9KQEmdn X-Orig-Path: news.ops.mine.nu Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Reg-Linux-User: #5664 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4145 Original-Lines: 32 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4145 Tue Jan 17 17:33:05 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4004 Archived-At: I would like to convert my current news and mail setup to Gnus. Currently I use fetchmail, fetching my various mail sources (POP3) via my local exim, which then calls procmail to sort my mail into a spool directory under ~/Mail into various incoming mbox files, which are then in turn read and displayed by my current MUA, mutt. The ~/.procmailrc is mostly used to create mailboxes for subscribed to mailing lists. It also has some (fairly basic) spam filtering included. Reading the Gnus tutorial at my.gnus.org, it suggests reading from the various POP3 sources directly. I've been putting off converting to Gnus for some time, since I'm unsure how to proceed. Which is better - using my current mail setup above, (ie fetchmail->procmail, with possible slight modifications), or converting to using the direct Gnus method(s)? Can I integrate spamassassin into the latter, or would ifile (and ifile-gnus-el) be a better solution. I understand using the nnml backend is the recommended (and fastest) method. I'm running a Debian sid system, with the latest (Debian packaged) Gnus installed. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks. Neil.