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Re: Read/process mbox file in Gnus
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Read/process mbox file in Gnus |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:27:38 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> On Friday, 6 Nov 2020 at 07:09, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Thanks for the input folks. Seems like I should bite the bullet and
>> reinstall VM.
>
> Gnus does understand mbox format files. I have the following snippet in
> my gnus configuration:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq
> mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/ucecesf")
> (file :path "/home/ucecesf/mbox")))
> #+end_src
>
> and the emails are picked up from there perfectly fine. Whether this is
> sufficient for your actual use case, is another story.
Oh, well that answers my earlier question -- both the nndoc route and
the mail-sources route would serve Skip's purposes, since both can read
mbox. It's just a question of whether the process is very occasional and
very manual (use nndoc) or regular and automatable (use mail-sources).
maildir wouldn't need to come into it.