Re: Downloading mails/news for offline usage

[Abbe Faria]

On Apr 18, 5:51 pm, nipra <prabhakar.nik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I recently set up gnus following steps 
> athttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/070813.html.
> My ~/.gnus.el is as follows:
>
> (require 'pop3)
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
>
> (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "mail")
>
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '((".*" (name "Nikhil Prabhakar"))))
>
> (setq mail-sources
>       '((file :path "/var/mail/nipra")
>         (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>              :port 995
>              :user "prabhakar.nik...@gmail.com"
>              :connection ssl
>              :leave t)))
>
> ;; Configure outbound mail (SMTP)
> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
>       smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
>       smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
>       send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>       message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>       smtpmail-smtp-service 587
>       smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com"
>                                    587
>                                    "prabhakar.nik...@gmail.com"
>                                    nil)))
>
> Now I want to configure gnus to download all mails from gmail and news
> from selected newsgroups for offline use later one. What are the steps
> involved?
> Regards,
> nipra

Use fetchmail[1] for mails and leafnode[2] for USENET.

[1] - http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
[2] - http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/

HTH