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From: "pd" <pd@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Using fetchmail with gnus (on Windows)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:44:29 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6TP8.75595$nZ3.32605@rwcrnsc53> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lm9cqxdh.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>


"Paul Jarc" <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message
news:m3lm9cqxdh.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu...
> Peter Davis <pdavis@pageflexinc.com> wrote:
> > 1) fetchmail seems to leave a bunch of msg.blahblahblah files in my
> > /var/spool/mail/pdavis directory by default.  Is this something gnus
> > can read as a file mail source?
>
> That depends on the format of those files.

It's basically one message per file.  There are no tmp or new or current
subdirectories, which is what I think maildir would expect.

> > Is there some way to get gnus to run fetchmail whenever I type 'g'?
>
> Try adding a (shell-command) call as a :prescript for the mail-sources
> entry.

I've just found a perl script that fetches messages from a POP server, so
maybe that will solve my problem.  I'll have to hack it a bit, though.  For
those interested, it's at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html


Thanks,

-pd


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18 16:21 Peter Davis
     [not found] ` <m3lm9cqxdh.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
2002-06-19  3:44   ` pd [this message]
     [not found] ` <r8j3w69o.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]   ` <znxmpt5h.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]     ` <868z56jtd4.fsf@pille.my-fqdn.de>
2002-06-23 13:43       ` Peter Davis
2002-06-26 14:53   ` Peter Davis
     [not found]     ` <m3it468440.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
2002-06-26 19:12       ` Peter Davis
2002-06-26 20:29         ` Josh Huber
2002-06-27  2:47           ` pd
     [not found]             ` <87ofdxpci6.fsf@alum.wpi.edu>
     [not found]               ` <wusk28cy.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]                 ` <87y9d0ol0j.fsf@alum.wpi.edu>
2002-06-27 14:52                   ` Peter Davis
2002-06-27 15:57                     ` Josh Huber
     [not found]                       ` <it44ziwa.fsf@bitstream.com>
2002-06-27 18:45                         ` Peter Davis
2002-06-27 22:40                           ` Frank Haun
     [not found]                             ` <bs9wump3.fsf@bitstream.com>
2002-06-28  8:31                               ` Frank Schmitt
     [not found] ` <4rfgc0kv.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]   ` <vafd6u4u66o.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
     [not found]     ` <vafpty3fu7y.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
     [not found]       ` <uhejfqytj.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]         ` <vafn0t7cuug.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
     [not found]           ` <u8z4qpa62.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]             ` <vaffzyy449z.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
     [not found]               ` <u1yagifew.fsf@bitstream.com>
     [not found]                 ` <vaflm8n8pnu.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-07-08 15:00                   ` Peter Davis

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