From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/655 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "pd" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Using fetchmail with gnus (on Windows) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:44:29 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667607 7831 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.208.212 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1024458269 24.147.208.212 (Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:44:29 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:44:29 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:795 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 795 Tue Jan 17 17:27:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:655 Archived-At: "Paul Jarc" wrote in message news:m3lm9cqxdh.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu... > Peter Davis 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