From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OSX Mail app =?utf-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= Emacs ? Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 06:11:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496463109 8300 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 04:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 04:11:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 06:11:45 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 1dH0Pg-0001uo-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 06:11:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH0Pm-0000MF-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH0PH-0000MA-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH0PE-0004Js-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50535 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH0PE-0004IU-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dH0P3-0008Uf-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 06:11:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:JRG4ClUVYoPNTEqo/6owJISNhjc= 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:113334 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> I would not worry about the past. No one can >> do anything about the past and the future >> will come, inevitably. > > In the meanwhile I have ongoing projects that > require me to use the old system... OK, so now you are even more motivated to finish them off ASAP :) > Not "really old" I never used IMAP. > Everything I do is over POP. The Mail > structure is tons of subfolders that contain > .mbox files. mbox should be very possibly to import directly into Gnus and/or respool into whatever you switch to! How should be in the Gnus manual. I would recommend a backend which stores mails single files (one file per mail), e.g. nnml. That way you can use the shell tools on the mails much easier than those many-mails-in-one-file methods. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573