[geeks] gnus tutorial

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 16:29:36 (-0500), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] gnus tutorial
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to use gnus so that I can switch to it from mutt.
> 
> What I keep running into is that the tutorial/faq/howto things I'm finding
> on the web assume that I'm using a pop server or an imap server.  But, I'm
> logged into the mail server, and I just want gnus to suck my mail out of
> /var/spool/mail/jdboyd, and I want it to leave the mail there unless I 
> specifically delete something or move it (as opposed to automatically moving
> all messages from there to a mail file in my ~ dir).  Could anyone say how to
> do this, or point me to a document that explains it?  I think I want unix mail
> box for the backend.

Why not use ViewMail?  It is, in my opinion, far superior for mail reading.

GNUS is over-bloated with rarely used features even for news reading....  
(though it's the only news reader I've used in ages....  :-)

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