From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Snippet to jump to message in Gnus from notmuch-show buffer
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:12:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr6xt70j.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y6ll85gi.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:51:41 -0800, Carl wrote:
> Hrm... still seeing the same inscrutable stuff that I find every time I
> try to read gnus documentation. The "I want to read my mail!" post
> describes "nnml" as "a one-file-one-mail backend" but then the closest
> it gets to how to use it is:
> So if you want to go with nnmbox, you can simply say:
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox "")))
> (The same for the other methods, kind of.)
> And I'm lost. Besides the "kind of", which just makes me uneasy, how
> does it make sense to configure an mbox backend with just an empty
> string? Surely something needs to be told where to find an actual mbox
> file?
It uses its defaults.
I use nnml to store my email (I like the one-file per email, indexed).
To do that, I've simply added:
; Get email, and store in nnml:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
to my .gnus. Note that this makes Gnus fetch your email and store it in
nnml-"format" under ~/Mail/
I would expect that setting mail-sources to an empty list will make Gnus
not fetch your email for you.
If you store your maildirs somewhere Gnus doesn't expect, you can
configure the select-method further - see the nnmaildir node in the
manual for instance, you can set 'directory' etc.
> Or is this just selecting a backend for how GNUS should store mail that
> it fetches?
Yes, exactly.
> Is there any hope for someone like me that doesn't want GNUS involved in
> fetching mail, but just wants to use GNUS to read mail files that I have
> in a big hierarchy of directories?
Mail files in what format?
I think the quickest way to do that is using foreign groups (but I've
usually only used that to view mbox and RMAIL-files, maybe configuring a
secondary select method is better with maildir).
(It's "Gnus" by the way - "GNUS" was the predecessor of Gnus).
> I keep feeling there must be a simple document somewhere that explains
> how to do that---but I just can't find it.
Simple and Gnus isn't always compatible :-)
Best regards,
Adam
--
"Favours for the ungrateful Adam Sjøgren
Unqualified & hateful" asjo@koldfront.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-02 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-24 8:02 Snippet to jump to message in Gnus from notmuch-show buffer Tassilo Horn
2009-11-27 12:54 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-27 17:29 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2009-11-27 13:31 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-27 22:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-28 14:55 ` Adam Sjøgren
2009-12-02 20:51 ` Carl Worth
2009-12-02 21:12 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2010-11-21 1:12 ` Brett Viren
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