Re: how to read mail (Gnus)

[Taylor Venable <taylor@metasyntax.net>]

sroh <rookie52@gmail.com> writes:

> what is Next step for reading mail?

You need to set your secondary select method to use whatever mail
backend you want.  For example, I use nnml because it stores each
message in an individual file, which makes access fast.

>From "C-h v gnus-secondary-select-methods":

,----
| If, for instance, you want to read your mail with the nnml back end,
| you could set this variable:
| 
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
`----

Then you need to set the variable nnmail-split-methods so that the
mail is categorized correctly:

,----
| This variable is a list of lists, where the first element of each of
| these lists is the name of the mail group (they do not have to be
| called something beginning with `mail', by the way), and the second
| element is a regular expression used on the header of each mail to
| determine if it belongs in this mail group.
`----

And lastly, please make sure:

,----
| The last of these groups should always be a general one, and the
| regular expression should _always_ be `""' so that it matches any
| mails that haven't been matched by any of the other regexps.
`----

When you've got everything set up, M-x gnus and subscribe to some of
the groups that mail gets split into according to nnmail-split-methods.

If you get stuck, read the Gnus manual either online at
http://www.gnus.org/ or from an Info browser: C-h i.

-- 
Taylor Venable
taylor@metasyntax.net
http://www.metasyntax.net/