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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Read/process mbox file in Gnus
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:27:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6vu78n9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh3upqcg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:27:59 +0000")

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday,  6 Nov 2020 at 07:09, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Thanks for the input folks. Seems like I should bite the bullet and
>> reinstall VM.
>
> Gnus does understand mbox format files.  I have the following snippet in
> my gnus configuration:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (setq
>    mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/ucecesf")
>                   (file :path "/home/ucecesf/mbox")))
> #+end_src 
>
> and the emails are picked up from there perfectly fine.  Whether this is
> sufficient for your actual use case, is another story.

Oh, well that answers my earlier question -- both the nndoc route and
the mail-sources route would serve Skip's purposes, since both can read
mbox. It's just a question of whether the process is very occasional and
very manual (use nndoc) or regular and automatable (use mail-sources).

maildir wouldn't need to come into it.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 16:58 Read/process mbox file in Gnus Skip Montanaro
2020-11-06  1:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-11-06 10:44   ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-06 12:19     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-06 13:09       ` Skip Montanaro
2020-11-06 13:27         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-06 16:27           ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-11-06 18:40         ` Skip Montanaro
2020-11-09 13:40           ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-06 15:34     ` Colin Baxter
2020-11-06 16:22       ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-06 18:03         ` Colin Baxter

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