From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/679 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Using fetchmail with gnus (on Windows) Date: 26 Jun 2002 14:53:25 +0000 Organization: Pageflex Inc. 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 1138667628 7948 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:33:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:57 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!stl-feed.news.verio.net!news.cmnh.org!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.bitstream.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.103.147.252 Original-X-Trace: news.bitstream.com 1025106842 25584 199.103.147.252 (26 Jun 2002 15:54:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sysops@bitstream.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 2002 15:54:02 GMT X-Face: @Pq3?My0v;TPXbg}b;pHV{1I-kH,?FV:1$wMunQgt%u;KIx8Jl%)8E;Tag?jQQu4+Q,/QiTe@x!bk'k@uXGAj?wVZSBSj}T1X}Yql~e]uv@#]I>5F:BJ;+\k5B&3hG3ZT8_{3>#[D)SbK/9t&3TG$L7SnV3G User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:819 Original-Lines: 52 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 819 Tue Jan 17 17:27:57 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:679 Archived-At: Can't anyone tell me what format the 'file' mail-source is supposed to be? Or how to get gnus to read it? The info on mail source specifiers does not describe this at all. Thanks, -pd Peter Davis writes: [...] > Ok, I've figured out the one-message-per-file problem. I ignorantly > created a directory /var/spool/mail/pdavis/, where I thought the spool > file from fetchmail would go. Wrong. Once I got rid of the pdavis > directory, fetchmail very nicely put a spool file named pdavis into > /var/spool/mail for me. > > This file appears to be all the new messages appended together. Each > begins with a line like: > > From pdavis ... > > > So, I put this into my .gnus file, > > setq mail-sources > '((file > :path "c:\\cygwin\\var\\spool\\mail\\pdavis") > ) > > figuring gnus would fetch the messages from this spool file. It > didn't. All it tells me is "no new mail". > > So how can I get gnus to read this? The above code seems to match > what's described in the info file. Once I can get this working, I can > use :prescript to actually call fetchmail (I hope!) > > Thanks very much. > > -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html