Re: linux system mail - information overload

[Hadron Quark]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Could some kind soul please nudge me in the right direction to set gnus
> up to read my Ubuntu "system emails". By these I mean the ones in
> /var/mail or in /var/spool/mail - A google provides so much information
> I cant really get started with any confidence and am even lost at
> differentiating between the two.
>
> I already have fetchmail using procmail to publish incoming pop3  mails
> and mailing lists to maildir format.
>
> How to see "localhost" email?
>
> Any terminology/education much appreciated.

ok, I tried following the manual & added/edited this to my private
.gnus.el

,----
| (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/hadron")
| (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail/nnml")
| 
| (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost"))
| 
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
|        '((nnmaildir "MyMail" (directory "~/Mail/"))
|         (nnml "")))
`----


Gnus now shows this group:

nnml+/var/spool/mail/hadron:mail.misc

But when I try to select it I get these messages:

,----
| Retrieving newsgroup: nnml+/var/spool/mail/hadron:mail.misc...
| Loading disp-table...done
| Loading gnus-ml...done
| gnus-server-opened: Trying to require a method that doesn't exist
`----

Any ideas? How to debug further?


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