From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: For users not programmers with very little, maybe a smattering of experience, how do you setup gnus for reading email?... Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:46:29 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <87skzvi97w.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203040342 28564 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2008 01:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:52:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 15 02:52:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPpkr-0005nD-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:52:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPpkN-0001X1-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:52:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1203026133 03 19942 V22M1TvvcV7NyUs 080214 21:55:33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZeCx0-Z1re8tukRrd0+WqTenMDxNgaxpldOPOXIdBL3yPg+64MFu4W X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51538 Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 14 2008, Bastien Guerry wrote: > This minimal Gnus configuration file might help you here: I wouldn't call it "minimal Gnus configuration file". Some settings there are already the default, not required or just a matter of taste. ,----[ (info "(gnus)Starting Up") ] | If your system administrator has set things up properly, starting | Gnus and reading news is extremely easy--you just type `M-x gnus' in | your Emacs. If not, you should customize the variable | `gnus-select-method' as described in *Note Finding the News::. For a | minimal setup for posting should also customize the variables | `user-full-name' and `user-mail-address'. `---- For mail, you need to set up `gnus-secondary-select-methods' as described in... ,----[ (info "(gnus)Getting Started Reading Mail") ] | For instance, if you want to use `nnml' (which is a "one file per | mail" back end), you could put the following in your `~/.gnus.el' file: | | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) | | Now, the next time you start Gnus, this back end will be queried for | new articles, and it will move all the messages in your spool file to | its directory, which is `~/Mail/' by default. The new group that will | be created (`mail.misc') will be subscribed, and you can read it like | any other group. `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/