From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are advantages and disadvantages of RMAIL and mh-rmail ? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:01:47 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hada9h6z.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <5ili3zuuj0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878uyoua8b.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8761tr9ofa.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ob7iq5sf.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380049515 25816 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2013 19:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:05:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 24 21:05:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOXvE-0001PI-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47532 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOXvD-0001dm-6W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:05:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:e5qrW8L30TPwg9q3dTOMMSK/OrI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201266 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93535 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Rmail until emacs 23 used the babyl file format, and > Gnus has a backend for that (nnbabyl). Later versions > of Rmail use the standard mbox format, and of course > Gnus can also use that (nnmbox). Thanks, but I didn't get it to work. I use: GNU Emacs 23.4.1 file (the shell tool) tells me that the RMAIL file is an HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines I appended an nnmbox element to the Gnus secondary selection list but something is missing as I get news, and mail (with nnml), but nothing more (and no error message), as always. I didn't know what to make of the -active file, so I just created an empty such file with touch. Note that I don't want to use nnmbox for new incommings, I'm happy with nnml, I just want a Gnus group populated with the messages now in my RMAIL file, and then use that group as an archive. (But it can be a separate group. It doesn't have to be merged with the nnml inbox, mail.misc, although that would be optimal.) (require 'nnmbox) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "") (nnmbox "" (nnmbox-mbox-file "~/rmail_gnus/rmail_mb") (nnmbox-active-file "~/rmail_gnus/.rmail_mb-active") (nnmbox-get-new-mail t) )) mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent read-mail-command 'gnus) -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573