From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16898 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dennis Askey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: adive to a gnus newbie Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:11:52 +0000 Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System, Est. 1987 Message-ID: References: <87fvmvvjju.fsf@jenenliu-Inspiron-N4050.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <824n3adv7p.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403020322 1040 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2014 15:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:52:02 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 17:51:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwvfw-0000KX-P1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwvfw-0004xl-El for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:51:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!odin.sdf-eu.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdf.org Original-X-Trace: odin.sdf-eu.org 1403017905 47 192.94.73.15 (17 Jun 2014 15:11:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@odin.sdf-eu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:11:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:asVr9Z3hOW6KIy8VSRoTHHOLJj8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88027 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:51:54 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16898 Archived-At: jenenliu writes: > The gnus document is complicated to me, maybe it is because I am new to > gnus. > Now I have the basic setting myself, and read some tutorials. > I am trying to read and understand gnus documents. > It can be painful if you don't know what others talk about gnus for > beginners. > Thanks for reply. I had trouble understanding gnus for the longest time until I simply sat down and read the help group that gnus automatically shows when you first start it and then read section 6.3 Getting Mail in the gnus manual. I used those sources to create a barebones ~/.gnus.el. DNA AKA mrascii -- 27 Years 1987-2014 SDF Free Public Access UNIX System http://www.sdf.org