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Re: how to read mail (Gnus)
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Taylor Venable |
Subject: |
Re: how to read mail (Gnus) |
Date: |
Fri, 11 May 2007 15:01:53 -0400 |
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Gnus 5.11 / Emacs 23.0.0.1 / Linux 2.6.20 |
sroh <rookie52@gmail.com> writes:
> what is Next step for reading mail?
You need to set your secondary select method to use whatever mail
backend you want. For example, I use nnml because it stores each
message in an individual file, which makes access fast.
>From "C-h v gnus-secondary-select-methods":
,----
| If, for instance, you want to read your mail with the nnml back end,
| you could set this variable:
|
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
`----
Then you need to set the variable nnmail-split-methods so that the
mail is categorized correctly:
,----
| This variable is a list of lists, where the first element of each of
| these lists is the name of the mail group (they do not have to be
| called something beginning with `mail', by the way), and the second
| element is a regular expression used on the header of each mail to
| determine if it belongs in this mail group.
`----
And lastly, please make sure:
,----
| The last of these groups should always be a general one, and the
| regular expression should _always_ be `""' so that it matches any
| mails that haven't been matched by any of the other regexps.
`----
When you've got everything set up, M-x gnus and subscribe to some of
the groups that mail gets split into according to nnmail-split-methods.
If you get stuck, read the Gnus manual either online at
http://www.gnus.org/ or from an Info browser: C-h i.
--
Taylor Venable
taylor@metasyntax.net
http://www.metasyntax.net/