Re: GNUS and Mail

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

karlheg+debian@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  This works for me in XEmacs 20.  I get my mail home using
> `fetchmail', which is configured with an "mua" line in its control
> file that has it run `formail -s procmail'.

I just let gnus do the splitting (no procmail necessary.  From my
.emacs file:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; Gnus setup
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy)
(setq nnmail-split-fancy
      '(| 
        ("Gnus-Warning" ".*" "duplicates")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-announce" "debian-announcements")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel-announce" "debian-announcements")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-changes" "debian-changes")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel-changes" "debian-changes")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-bugs-dist" "debian-bugs")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-user" "debian-user")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel" "debian-devel")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "debian-private" "debian-private")
        ("Sender" "owner-executor@ardi\\.com" "executor")
        ("Sender" "owner-pioneer-users@rwii\\.com" "pioneer-users")
        ("Sender" "owner-accelx-users@xig\\.com" "accelerated-x-users")
        ("Resent-From" "lesstif@hungry\\.com\\|lesstif-commits@hungry.com"
         "lesstif")
        ("X-Mailing-List" "gtk-list@redhat\\.com" "gtk")
        "inbox"))

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.cc.utexas.edu"))
(setq gnus-asynchronous t)

(setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-zombies)
(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server)
(setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)

(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)

;; So the server will accept me
(setq gnus-local-domain "cs.utexas.edu")

;; So the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line "Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>")
(setq user-mail-address "rlb@cs.utexas.edu")
(setq gnus-local-organization "The University of Texas at Austin")

(setq gnus-extract-address-components 'mail-extract-address-components)

(setq gnus-auto-select-next t)
(setq gnus-auto-select-same t)

(setq gnus-use-cross-reference 'all)
(setq gnus-auto-select-newsgroup nil)
(setq gnus-summary-check-current t)

(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
(setq gnus-thread-hide-subtree t)
(setq gnus-thread-indent-level 2)

(setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
(setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)

;;; Score file stuff
(setq gnus-kill-killed t)  ;; so you can re-kill a set of articles

(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)

(setq gnus-use-cache 'passive)

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
      '((nnml "osiris" 
              (nnml-directory "~/Mail/Incoming")
              (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/Incoming/active")
              )))

(setq gnus-message-archive-method
      '(nnml "outgoing" 
						 (nnml-directory "~/Mail/Outgoing") 
             (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/Outgoing/active")
						 (nnml-get-new-mail nil)))

(setq gnus-message-archive-group 
      '((if (message-news-p)
            "misc-news" 
          "misc-mail")))

(setq nnmail-delete-duplicates 'warn)
(setq nnmail-message-id-cache-length 3000)
(setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml+")

-- 
Rob


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