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Re: Problems incorporating old mail
From: |
Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
Re: Problems incorporating old mail |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:43:43 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> I did this, and got a maildir folder, but I'm embarrassed to say that I
>> don't know how to get these messages into gnus, either.
>
> For importing a maildir folder, you have to have set up the mail
> backend, nnml, as a primary or secondary source of mail like this:
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '(nnml ""))
>
> After that, you specify that you own a maildir folder setting a source
> for nnml:
>
> (setq mail-sources
> '(
> (maildir :path "Path/to/your/folder"
> :subdirs ("cur" "new"))
> ))
Brilliant! That did the trick. Whatever the original problem was, this
works around it nicely.
I appreciate the help,
E