On 24 Aug 2006 09:58:47 +0200, Martin Steffen wrote: > hi, > > I fought in vain to get flush mails from the local imap server to > my local disk-space using procmail, etc. and then having gnus > read it locally. > > > Too bad (I couldn't find out the reason; supported seems "Why don't you > simply use firefox, everyone does!'', well, I got lot's of mails, and I > want some decent handling of them, no clicking tiny buttons all day long, > which means for me gnus... > > So I'm considering to gear up, i.e. forget about using procmail to split > mails but use gnus as imap client. > > Now, here are two questions: the manual tells me: use the package > > ssl.el > > I found it, put it to my load path, but it "requires" packager "url". I > tried to google that, but it sais at > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/url/ > > > that url.el does not longer exist, resp. that it is included in emacs.
emacs/22.0.51/lisp/url/url.el.gz > > Well, it's not in my distribution, anymay (require 'url) breaks loading > ssl.el (I'm having here > > GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of > 2003-08-12 on some-machine > > > > So, is all that no supported? What else should I use/do? > You can grab url from emacs cvs. It may work in emacs 21.3. > > > The second question is more theoretical: does gnus allow me to "grep" > (search in some way) through emails kept at the imap server? (One reason > that I like my emails at my local disk is that I can search them quickly). > > Thanks, Martin -- Leon _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
