From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sharon Kimble Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to get the system emails Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:10:55 +0000 Message-ID: <8760jiyabk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> References: <87mvcv4oc8.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87a88vnu60.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489057946 3087 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2017 11:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:12:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen , Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 09 12:12:19 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1clvzT-0008Nq-G7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:12:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clvzZ-0003CK-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:12:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clvyA-0002Zm-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clvy6-0004ck-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from avasout08.plus.net ([212.159.14.20]:43377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clvy6-0004bB-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:10:50 -0500 Original-Received: from london.london ([51.7.106.233]) by avasout08 with smtp id tnAn1u006529ot701nAokR; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:10:49 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=B5zJ6KlM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=E49OrRtc5+dUs92J+03Wog==:117 a=E49OrRtc5+dUs92J+03Wog==:17 a=qbX9SruPAAAA:8 a=jKjxfLc-AAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=LlzXLoV6AAAA:8 a=iI7HsYTVAAAA:8 a=bAHfVwKlAAAA:8 a=S1ShrF9MQsM7ulneBQUA:9 a=3Y9FIu8aHWbn19Lb:21 a=ge3AiO5KVNj0HpHk:21 a=F36f-S0qkJFb8Ar3GwIA:9 a=ONNS8QRKHyMA:10 a=xi6azrKtr6nDRGqSc-Fi:22 a=bn6-T6SDB5FFQ9ADL64D:22 a=2QnvU_Seggjd_bIuGcs8:22 a=diwpeB1DDhFXqWA7J4Up:22 a=KxyM1Xthmv57RbWRIpnN:22 a=fjrkRJ71zQ2jzMzczd-K:22 X-AUTH: skimble@:2500 In-Reply-To: <87a88vnu60.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:57:43 -0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.159.14.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112477 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>> How can I download the /var/mail/mail system >>> mails into my gnu working please? >> >> Interesting question! >> >> I remember doing some stuff (?) with that once. >> Now my /var/mail is empty tho. Hey, at least >> I don't get those annoying messages in the VTs >> about new mail... >> >> If there is support for that there should be >> a select method (see >> `gnus-secondary-select-methods') but even if >> there isn't, it can possibly be done using >> respooling if nothing else... > > You can add the spool to the `mail-sources' variable, see the "Mail > Source Specifiers" part of the Gnus manual. > > Eric Thanks to both Eric and Emanuel I've got it working now. This is what I did - =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/boudiccas") (file :path "/var/spool/mail/mail")=20=20 (pop :server "mail.plus.net" :user "skimble" :passwo= rd "12345654321"))) =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I added the middle line, and then just changed the permissions for the system/root mails such that I could read and write to it. And now it works perfectly, so thanks folks. That's been bugging me for months and I'm glad that its finally sorted out :) Thanks Sharon. =2D-=20 A taste of linux =3D http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds =3D http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts =3D http://www.drugfacts.org.uk=20=20 Debian 8.6, fluxbox 1.3.5-2, emacs 25.1.1.1 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYwTg/AAoJEDaBgBkK+INb1LYP/Ay1AobVNemjUOkMZneiWL0n glbwBbp4MoYlJLyV/i3VEpR4uRQqg7nSjYZm6ye7leSjpSEtWsLVzm95N8yUNuWm uaIAE9njr+kODTNrTDZ178sYu8BgUeGHi2rocrVHPh/BkeffChPLuY1AFiI0oNr1 01HSYyudzGfq349izHIeXDvVr+kiaJQUUbcYXNXquwUCFO8Oc7vdlzuXuV+ni3jc PhEcGVP0tzDOKJ9ozMT9QgMOIgOOjAisYZPoNm5O83VlQ3/wkh8CsujxARlpY0Xj iiCa+dJ+ORb/SqjX0iYsL9Uv6WgYbB/LwCfYBUO6i0UjMSjlBlpJ2qwebodBFmKt B+jTElTiyT/PxcdpdP08l1sDZl6uSMh3oNIf+jMRS6qIx8Af1mRJEp+YukI+Bg+4 h6g/Fptutb5vkUmXboTIK8X0sPfYcduj06T9ycP0mro2N4gppwEd8IgzUUk0wcs5 GT7IZSUjLT78/l4Qg8hFF6yi9SImmCZEtI5lWDUaDdz6ATAK+DE587zZ7UKhpehi jmVo/HtZq+1bYpfY1cn6Menui0QputOj/biy5iYmjYsJ4aKoU9vkZGz2YRcf7gHO vX3hRfGUtlK2oeVlsmZIFGjnPnJVrV9auAWtsHp3FWj5mh0wEfrYYfHfa/2zp4kR BTGyjpDgO2zITYS9VA5O =yuHf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--