lee> Yeah, you got an endless ~./emacs with a lot things in it. But lee> that doesn't say how to get gnus to work, either.
You have to start with Gnus-select-method and nnmaildir (imap) and nntp (news). See examples in my .emacs and/or manual. lee> It seems to be fine with the ~/.gnus I created and happily lee> displays an empty buffer, and that's it. Yes, because it does not have any info to display yet. lee> Btw, is gnus good for organizing mail? Since it's a news reader, lee> it might not support that at all because you don't organize news. lee> I'm trying to find a MUA that supports organizing mail --- mutt, lee> for example, doesn't; sup "solves" the problem by abandoning the lee> idea of organizing mail altogether. Maybe I could use it, but it lee> doesn't run stable enough to try it out. I don't want a GUI MUA, lee> and it must support maildir. I want to continue using emacs or lee> xemacs as an editor for mails. If by organizing you mean sieve, scoring, grouping and things like that, then yes, Gnus is very good for organizing mail.
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