I want to move my mail server and Gnus MUA from a very old machine
(emacs 20.7.1 and gnus 5.8.8) to a Debian bullseye machine with emacs
and Gnus 5.13.
The mail is filtered by procmail into several files in the ~/PROCMAIL
directory. From there it should be read by Gnus and stored in mail
groups in ~/Mail/<group>.
Filtering to ~/PROCMAIL works as in my old machine:
$ ls -l ~/PROCMAIL
total 12
-rw------- 1 urs urs 709 Nov 10 13:54 bar.gnus
-rw------- 1 urs urs 709 Nov 10 09:13 foo.gnus
-rw------- 1 urs urs 705 Nov 10 09:13 mail.gnus
However, Gnus doesn't read the mails from there. My .gnus config file
is
$ cat ~/.gnus
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
(setq mail-sources '((directory :path "~/PROCMAIL/"
:suffix ".gnus")))
When starting Gnus with 'M-x gnus' the .gnus file is read but the
configured mail-sources aren't read. Running strace on emacs shows
that the PROCMAIL directory isn't touched at all. However, the (setq
mail-sources...) isn't ignored completely, since mail also is not read
from /var/mail/urs which would be the default.
If I disable procmail and leave incoming mail in /var/mail/urs and if
I remove the (setq mail-sources ...) form .gnus but keep the
gnus-secondary-select-methods, mails are read from /var/mail/urs and
written to ~/Mail/mail/misc as docuemnted in the Gnus manual.
What am I doing wrong that the 'directory' mail source doesn't work?
urs
