read emails from a Maildir in gnus

read emails from a Maildir in gnus

[xeon Mailinglist]

I have my email in a Maildir in the dir ~/Mail/xeonmailinglist

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├── cur
├── hadoop
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│   ├── new
│   └── tmp
├── new
└── tmp


I set the .gnus to read the email from that dir, but the email don't appear in the gnu? Why this happens?


.gnus
(setq
; gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "mymailbox" (directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist"))
 mail-sources '((maildir :path "/home/xeon/Mail/xeonmailinglist/" :subdirs ("cur" "new")))
 mail-source-delete-incoming t
 )
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods nil)
;(setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnmaildir+mymailbox:outbox")


Thanks,

Re: read emails from a Maildir in gnus

[Michael Heerdegen]

xeon Mailinglist <xeonmailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

> I set the .gnus to read the email from that dir, but the email don't
> appear in the gnu? Why this happens?

I had the same problem.  The solution was to create an according server
definition from the server buffer (you get there with ^ from the group
buffer), in my case the server definition looked like that:

(nnml "archive"
      (nnml-directory "~/Mail/archive/")
      (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
      (nnml-newsgroups-file "~/Mail/archive/newsgroups"))

maybe you want another backend than nnml.

Then you can add groups according to your directories in the group
buffer using this server, and finally read your mails via these groups.

I'm not sure whether there is a smarter method (anybody?).


Regards,

Michael.

Re: read emails from a Maildir in gnus

[Jeffrey DeLeo]

If I understand your situation correctly, another program puts mail in
the directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist". You would like to use gnus to
read it.

How about:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
      '("mymailbox" (directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist")))

I guess you could set 'gnus-select-method to that if you wanted, I
didn't try that.

In any case, when you run gnus, run 'gnus-group-list-active' (by hitting
A A). You should find a group looking something like
"nnmaildir+mymailbox:INBOX". Subscribe to it.

Re: read emails from a Maildir in gnus

[Jeffrey DeLeo]

Oops - that should be:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
 '(nnmaildir "mymailbox" (directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist")))

Jeffrey DeLeo <JeffreyDeLeo@gmail.com> writes:

> If I understand your situation correctly, another program puts mail in
> the directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist". You would like to use gnus to
> read it.
>
> How about: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("mymailbox"
> (directory "~/Mail/xeonmailinglist")))
>
> I guess you could set 'gnus-select-method to that if you wanted, I
> didn't try that.
>
> In any case, when you run gnus, run 'gnus-group-list-active' (by
> hitting A A). You should find a group looking something like
> "nnmaildir+mymailbox:INBOX". Subscribe to it.