thanks for your reply.
On 28 Sep 1997, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i guess what i'm looking for is a blend of xemacs/gnus and pine/elm.
>
> Use gnus. Gnus is not only a news reader but also a mail reading
> program. It excells at using mailling lists. Look in the info file
> under "Select methods" "Getting Mail".
sounds good. i actually like the idea of using gnus for reading mail. it
does a great job with news, so it should be able to do a good job with
mail.
one problem. a big one. in reading about the mail backends supported by
gnus (i want to use the unix mailbox backend), i see the following:
| Choosing a Mail Backend
| -----------------------
|
| Gnus will read the mail spool when you activate a mail group. The
| mail file is first copied to your home directory. What happens after
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| that depends on what format you want to store your mail in.
this is one of the things i was referring to when i said i didn't want
it doing weird things to my mail folders.
i don't want it to do this. i don't want gnus (or anything else apart
from procmail) to "store my mail"...it's already stored where i want it.
i need access to these mbox files from several systems via imap (i'll
only use xemacs at home, but i often need to read private mail and list
mail while i'm at work).
know any way around this?
all i want it to do is use the mail spool files i already have set
up (/var/spool/mail/cas, and a dozen or so incoming folders in
~/Mail/Lists/*/*/incoming files, plus literally hundreds of saved
messages folders, all in mbox format). I'm too lazy to want to
radically change a system which has worked well for me for years.
I already have procmail filtering and sorting my mail for me...it's
going EXACTLY *where* and *how* i want it to go.
craig
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