[Gllug] Evolution won't fetch my mail (Help)

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On 06 Aug 2002, Rich Walker uttered the following:
> > And RMAIL/Gnus is bad because? [No, it's a serious question: I do my
> > best typing in Emacs, so the idea that people who *could* use it
> > *wouldn't* is ... worrying...] Admittedly, the emacs dependencies on X
> > libraries can prove irritating,
> 
> There are no such dependencies.
> 
> Your *build* may have some, but Emacs and XEmacs don't depend on X at
> all; they like it but don't depend on it.

Yes, I thought that might be the case, but I use Debian for a reason: I
got bored with ./configure ; make ; su -c "make install". 

> >                                 but remembrance-agent should make up for
> > that.
> 
> Do you know of anyone who's extended remembrance-agent to work with
> newsgroups as well? (It'd involve adding a new message type to ra and
> arranging for the Lisp code to ask Gnus for articles with a given
> message-id when a hit is upon that sort of ID).

I'd *guess* that it could be done with a template; skimming the
remembrance-agent code (while trying to diagnose it's insanely crypyic
response to lack of index) it looked to be pretty flexible.

> 
> Hell, has anyone extended it to work with other than rmail (blech)?
> 
> It's on my todo list, but that list is not short :(

It will, of course, handle directories of individual mail items
perfectly well...

cheers, Rich.


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