lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> writes: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:48:36AM +0200, Suno Ano wrote: >> >> Lee> Hi, How do you read mail, stored in local maildirs, with gnus? I >> >> Gnus is by far the biggest Emacs package thus it takes a while to >> configure things. Maybe, if you take a look at my .emacs which can be >> found here http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/gnus.html it will help >> you a bit. > > Nice page, lots of info --- but how do I get gnus to work? > >> I have no .gnus but instead I have all Gnus and other Emacs settings >> within .emacs. You have to navigate to the Gnus section. > > Yeah, you got an endless ~./emacs with a lot things in it. But that > doesn't say how to get gnus to work, either. > > It seems to be fine with the ~/.gnus I created and happily displays an > empty buffer, and that's it. > > > BTW, is gnus good for organizing mail? Since it's a news reader, it > might not support that at all because you don't organize news. I'm > trying to find a MUA that supports organizing mail --- mutt, for > example, doesn't; sup "solves" the problem by abandoning the idea of > organizing mail altogether. Maybe I could use it, but it doesn't run > stable enough to try it out. I don't want a GUI MUA, and it must > support maildir. I want to continue using emacs or xemacs as an editor > for mails.
It takes a while to get working with it, but I think it is worth it. There is a lot of information starting at the following page: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGnus -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
