Thanks again for both follow-up responses.
I have followed Reiner's suggestion about gnus, and the loading of
the mail into Gnus is indeed smoother now. However, the mode line
has "-ephemeral" appended to the name of the mail INBOX Group; and
also when I issue a M-g (in the Gnus summary buffer) I still get an
error "Ephemeral groups can't be reselected" -- so I don't know how
to get new mail.
In the mean time, I have tried to follow another line of suggestions
from a local friend, and have taken
http://gray.gnu.org.ua/software/emacs/rmail-1.el which is linked from
in the middle of
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/mailutils.html, prompted by the
comment "The improved rmail.el, taking advantage of all the features
provided by our movemail should become available with the next
version of GNU Emacs. In the meanwhile its code is available from
Sergey Poznyakoff's site."
I byte-compiled it and loaded it OK. I issue "ESC-0 g" and at the
prompt "Get new mail from file: ~/ " I point it at
imap://<username>@<mailhost> (cf. defun rmail-parse-url at line 193)
And I presume I'll need to install at least movemeail from the GNU
mail utilities (not that I know how to do this...)
Matthias Buelow:
Hmm.. you cannot install some stuff in your home directory?
Yes, I can -- but am wary of having to instal and maintain stuff I
don't really understand.
Anyway, if this enhancement to RMAIL can be got working I reckon it
will be the best way out of my problem -- I can just keep using RMAIL
as I was (and don't need to keep trying to make gnus work).
David
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