"harel barzilai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks again for the updated gnus tutorial web page...I think I have > most of the "Set-up" > figured out except the mail source..and the tutorial has a broken link > for more information > on mail sources, unfortunately.. > > The tutorial in http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/Mail.html#Mail I was able > to follow until then, and so far I've put in my .gnus.el the following > > (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") > (setq user-full-name "Harel's Test Account") > > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmaildir "")) > > (setq smtpmail-local-domain "harelbarzilai.org") > (setq smtpmail-sendto-domain "harelbarzilai.org") > (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems > > though the internal "CCC Anyone out there who can give more info?" > comment next to listing "nnmaildir" , made by the author(s) of the > Tutorial has me a tad worried.. The broken link is to "See Mail Source > Specifiers (Gnus)," which points at > http://my.gnus.org/gnus/Mail-Source-Specifiers.html#Mail-Source-Specifiers"; > which doesn't exist. Perhaps I should notify the tutorial authors? In > any case, the only examples they give for mail-sources are of the form, > > (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "frumple" :user "jrl"))) > > Let me preface my next and last question by saying: I must confess I've > been living in a cave as far as pop servers..have just ssh'd into shell > and used "Mail" or rmail since 1989..emacs fan > since then (well rmail plus university's preinstalled software, plus > now gmail) but never > ever used outlook eudora etc, only shell or emacs commands..now my > question: somewhere in its docs dreamhost tells me "mail.mydomain.com" > (or in this case "mail.harelbarzilai.org") is the pop mail server..but > dont' I somehow need to tell gnus to go looking at ~/Maildir/ for mail? > I'm running gnus from inside emacs, of course and emacs from the shell, > and the shell I'm accessing via ssh via a simple text terminal > program..I know the web browser says it can't find > mail.harelbarzilai.org....so pardon me if I'm confused > but since dreamhost (though ways I don't know and have never needed to > know) have all my > incoming mail delivered to /home/username/Maildir/ also known as > ~/Maildir/ , for > each "user" I create for my account, don't I need to just tell gnus to > go look at ~/Maildir? > I think by default it looks in (and/or creates) ~/Mail/ ...how can I > change this to ~/Maildir? > > Since the link is broken and I don't know elisp formatting I'd need the > exact line to copy > paste into .gnus.el instead of the above "frumple" example... Sorry if > I'm missing something > but I've read the my.gnus.org tutorial chapter 7 entirely though > including 7.2 (and > earlier portions which gave user-mail-address etc) and need this last > piece to finish > the set-up of .gnus.el for reading email, it seems. > > Wishing everyone a safe and fulfilling 2007 :-) > > Harel
Personally I use fetchmail to bring in mail from pop servers Basically I use my own azurservers.com for mail, but it's nice to have backup facilities, so storing it in /root and ignoring the groans from the system: '.fetchmailrc' poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'william.henderson' password 'PASSWORD' is 'billhenderson' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'billhenderson' password 'PASSWORD' is 'billhenderson' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'slackrat' password 'PASSWORD' is 'slackrat' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'daveycrockett' password 'PASSWORD' is 'daveycrockett' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'joannevalliere' password 'PASSWORD' is 'joannevalliere' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'lysrossitier' password 'PASSWORD' is 'lysrossitier' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'meggydupres' password 'PASSWORD' is 'meggydupres' here poll pop.MY_POP-SERVER.fr proto POP3 user 'avatarazur' password 'PASSWORD' is 'avatarazur' here ## NOTHER-POP-SERVER.COM #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'slackrat' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'henderson_we' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here #poll mail.NUTHER_POP-SERVER.com proto POP3 user 'daveycrockett' password 'PASSWORD' is 'inconnu' here ================= /etc.rc.d/rc.local starts fetchmail # Bring in the Mail echo " " echo INFORMATION: Starting FetchMail /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -d 600 -K ======================== /home/inconnu/.gnus or .emacs since I'm not fussy ;; WHERE ARE THE INBOUND MESSAGES STORED AND WHERE SHOULD GNUS PUT THEM ;; ##################################################################### (setq nnmail-spool-file '( (file :path "/var/spool/mail/inconnu") (directory :path "/home/inconnu/Mail") ) -- Slackrat AKA Bill Henderson [No _4Q_ for direct email] emacs/gnus config [http://azurservers.com/gnus] _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
