From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to get the system emails Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:57:43 -0800 Message-ID: <87a88vnu60.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87mvcv4oc8.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489021244 27329 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2017 01:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 01:00:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 09 02:00:39 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 1clmRZ-00063K-DR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 02:00:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clmRd-0007Bc-RL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:00:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clmRD-0007BS-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clmRA-0001gg-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41446 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clmR9-0001gE-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1clmR1-0002hN-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 02:00:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:CdoleNfXOIUlTqBboJBD1iHcVcw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112469 Archived-At: 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