From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read/process mbox file in Gnus Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:27:38 -0800 Message-ID: <87a6vu78n9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87blgb8dho.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h7q2ix32.fsf@gmail.com> <87d00qr82a.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87zh3upqcg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="810"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 17:28:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kb4b0-00007j-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:28:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37326 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb4az-0007RZ-82 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:28:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb4aZ-0007RN-2W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:56060 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb4aW-0005dC-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (c-73-254-86-141.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.254.86.141]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C19F5FA086 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:27:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ericabrahamsen.net; s=mail; t=1604680062; bh=gETgY8sOHOBUuT85v9LvgQksFItt4hzWMrQuaivmuWg=; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=qkOl4HBksSNhhOnuQhieCRvPJ2WZcJrK39UhVXRks7OiwtRO0fYgVJ0vfnP6HIMvc fXnl/ET8p3oyXbazxjJAmY3YBfiLPKAL55VgcOjaeJ+8RH1QdOie308aXYwW3xkIs5 ZUk4wAAySHVhhw0SPzPxUCc5VNKVO2Ms32IPdlj4= In-Reply-To: <87zh3upqcg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:27:59 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=52.70.2.18; envelope-from=eric@ericabrahamsen.net; helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/06 11:01:54 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125074 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga 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.