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Subject: Re: Getting starting with gnus for mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:39:59 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 12 2003, Eric Schwartz wrote:

> I'd like to play a bit with gnus for email; I think I'll like it, but
> I'm having the devil's own time getting started.  I'm using the
> default setup from the info file, only with nnmbox instead of nnml,
> since I have quite a bit of mail archived in mbox format already.  

I would not recommend to use nnmbox; I'd prefer nnfolder, nnml or
nnmaildir, see (info "(gnus)Comparing Mail Back Ends").  You can copy
or respool (after setting up split methods) messages from an mbox file
to other back ends.

> My mail setup looks like this:
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox "")))

Try...

  (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmbox ""))

... (adding another method) or (removing previous entries) ...

  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox ""))).

> For instance, the documentation on backends talks about how you use
> them to get mail, when it seems to me as if the mail-sources
> variable controls how you get mail, and the backends just control
> how it's stored on disk.  Does this make sense, or am I just
> woefully confused?

Makes sense.  Which part of the manual confuses you?

Bye, Reiner.
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