From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail Setup Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:45:08 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200705242145.l4OLj82d015308@localhost.localdomain> References: <1179409310.620539.228430@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1179861309.907251.54120@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180044608 19827 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 22:10:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Texaner Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 00:10:03 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 1HrLVS-0006XP-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 00:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrLVV-0008UM-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrLT3-000740-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrLT2-00073A-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrLT1-00072r-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrLT1-0005Hk-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 42172643DA; Fri, 25 May 2007 00:05:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1001@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.home (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4OLj8ql015311; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: (from zedek@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4OLj82d015308; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:45:08 +0200 In-reply-to: <1179861309.907251.54120@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> (message from Texaner on 22 May 2007 12:15:10 -0700) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.51.1 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.275, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.12, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:44407 Archived-At: 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]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Movemail.html [2] C-h i m Rmail RET Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org