From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read/process mbox file in Gnus Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:27:59 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87zh3upqcg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87blgb8dho.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h7q2ix32.fsf@gmail.com> <87d00qr82a.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="7632"; 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 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1CJo+M6ZJObwVb5tlZGhTL0Rfps= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 14:29:09 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 1kb1nh-0001ru-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:29:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb1ng-0001ba-8X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:29:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40468) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb1mj-0001bA-Fx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36474 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kb1mh-0000R5-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kb1me-0000ON-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:28:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/06 07:20:32 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:125067 Archived-At: 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. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid