Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes: Hi Carl, > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:02:46 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote: >> I'm a Gnus user and use notmuch mostly for searching. When I want to >> reply to a message, I need to get back to Gnus, so that my Gnus >> posting styles (gcc into that group, right email address, correct >> signature,...) are applied. > > Oh, good. I've been hoping to be able to get some advice from gnus > users. I want to figure out how to get gnus support for viewing > encrypted messages, etc. Oh, I don't have any clue about encryption. EasyPG is a keyword, that I can provide, though. > Do you happen to know some good documentation for how to get started > with gnus for reading mail? I'd be happy even with the bare minimum to > just get gnus to view one single message from out of my mail > store. (Which is something I tried to figure out from the gnus manual, > but I never succeeded at.) Well, if you only want to have a look at a maildir or mbox, and don't want to make the group permanent and let gnus fetch mail, then this should do the trick. M-x gnus RET ;; brings you into the *Group* buffer, and then ,----[ (info "(gnus)Foreign Groups") ] | `G m' | Make a new group (`gnus-group-make-group'). Gnus will prompt you | for a name, a method and possibly an "address". For an easier way | to subscribe to NNTP groups (*note Browse Foreign Server::). `---- >> Therefore, I created this small snippet. Now C-c C-c inside some >> message in the *notmuch-show* buffer opens this article in a Gnus >> *Summary* buffer, where I can reply to it, forward it, ... > > And this would be exactly the thing I would want for exploring gnus, > if only I could get it working. This does only work if the group already exists inside Gnus. So you might consider setting it up properly, although it's a bit first-time effort. > If I just try to run it, I get: > > Symbol's function definition is void: org-gnus-follow-link Do you use Emacs 23? If yes, put a (require 'org-gnus) before the call. If not, you have to install org-mode manually. > And I suppose that's expected since I don't have gnus "running". If I > try to start gnus with "M-x gnus", I get: > > Unable to open server nntp+news, go offline? (y or n) Hm, I can reproduce that with "emacs -Q". Looks wrong to me, probably a bug... Normally, an unconfigured Gnus should start having one nndoc server providing some groups with static Gnus infos (FAQ and stuff). > What's the simplest way for me to tell gnus that I won't be using it > in any other way than with the "nnimap+" folder I can tell you're > using in your snippet? Here's a quick walkthrough my .gnus.el with only the basics (getting mail/news). --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ;; Gnus has the concept of one select method, and a list of so-called ;; secondary select methods. I set the former to a do-nothing backend ;; and only use the secondary ones, so that it's a bit more uniformly. (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil)) ;; Fetch news from my university's nntp server (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "Uni" (nntp-address "news.uni-koblenz.de") (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) (nntp-port-number 563))) ;; Fetch mail from some POP3 accounts and split them according to ;; address ;; The mails are stored in an nnml group at the given directory (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "Popmail" (nnml-directory "~/Mail/Popmail") (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/Popmail/active"))) ;; Here the mails are fetched (setq mail-sources `((pop :server "pop.gmx.de" :user "xxxxx@gmx.de" :password ,th-gnus-gmx-password) (pop :server "pop3.freenet.de" :user "xxxxx@freenet.de" :password ,th-gnus-freenet-password))) ;; Split them into the groups nnml+Popmail:gmx, freenet, and misc (setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy nnmail-split-fancy '(| (any "xxxxx@gmx.de" "gmx") (any "xxxxx@freenet.de" "freenet") "misc")) ;; Get mail from my local Dovecot IMAP server which I sync with my ;; different accounts using OfflineIMAP (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "Fastmail" (nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-authenticator login))) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "Uni" (nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-authenticator login))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- HTH, Tassilo