From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Texaner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail Setup Date: 25 May 2007 10:57:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1180115825.288622.49050@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <1179409310.620539.228430@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1179861309.907251.54120@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180118465 8149 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2007 18:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:41:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 20:41:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hreii-0003IW-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 20:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hreih-0003Na-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:40:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.140.220.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1180115825 9065 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2007 17:57:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:57:05 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.140.220.8; posting-account=9g-3JQ0AAADOexL2HeKdNI84EX5t5u6x Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148847 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44437 Archived-At: On 24 Mai, 23:45, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Hi, > > I think that my problem is that I have just absolutely no clue how to > configure rmail properly. > > The question is very basic in fact. Depending on how you want to > fetch your mail, the setup is different. > > You have the option to either give all power to rmail and thus it > will take in charge the fetching and displaying of your mail. > This method needs some configuration to inform rmail where and > how to retrieve your mails. You have to be sure that movemail has > been compiled with --with-pop option. > > Or you can use external third party tools such as > fetchmail/procmail to fetch your mail from your pop3 server. > Advantage of this method is that you simply configure fetchmail > once and you have nothing to do in rmail. M-x rmail RET will > automaticall retrieve your message from your local spool. > > Please, consider reading GNU Emacs manual[1] or check Rmail info > page[2]. Please see the first two lines of my first posting. ;-) But thanks anyway. > [1]http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Movemail.html > [2] C-h i m Rmail RET > > Xavier > --http://www.gnu.orghttp://www.april.orghttp://www.lolica.org