Re: Using VM on W95
greg(a)alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes:
andy> As a followup is it possible to use gnus and vm for mail
reading? For
andy> instance I might want to read xemacs-beta in a newsy sort of way and the
andy> rest of my mail using vm.
Colin> I would use procmail to split the incoming mail into a Gnus spool and
Colin> a VM spool, and then tell each of them where to look.
that's exactly what i've been doing for about 3 years and i
highly recommend it. i have gnus further split into xemacs-*,
various work-related lists, and spam.
now if the question was "on W95/NT?", that i can't answer, but it
would be nice to know...
Well, you need a unix machine to run procmail on, but other than that, it's
reasonably simple.
I currently have procmail running on my unix machine, and I have it sort
out mail for this & other mailing lists (not to mention spam) into
folders. Note that this happens _before_ I have any idea that mail has
arrived, so I'm not always being interrupted.
On the same unix machine, I'm running an IMAP4 server (the simple imapd
daemon from U of W).
Then on my work pee-cee (Windoze NT) and my work unix machine, I'm usually
running XEmacs/gnus/nnimap as my mail/news client. It works like a charm,
and the nice thing about IMAP4 is that all the mail folders reside on the
server, so I can switch mail clients any time, and everything stays in
synch. (I can even use netscape's mailer on my Mac at home through a
dial-up account!)
I highly recommend this kind of setup, it's very nice.
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