Getting Mail
Splitting Mail
It's quite easy to use Gnus to read your new mail. You just plonk the
mail backend of your choice into gnus-secondary-select-methods,
and things will happen automatically.
For instance, if you want to use nnml (which is a "one file per
mail" backend), you could put the following in your `.gnus' file:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnml "private")))
Now, the next time you start Gnus, this backend will be queried for new
articles, and it will move all the messages in your spool file to its
directory, which is ~/Mail/ by default. The new group that will
be created (`mail.misc') will be subscribed, and you can read it
like any other group.
You will probably want to split the mail into several groups, though:
(setq nnmail-split-methods
'(("junk" "^From:.*Lars Ingebrigtsen")
("crazy" "^Subject:.*die\\|^Organization:.*flabby")
("other" "")))
This will result in three new nnml mail groups being created:
`nnml:junk', `nnml:crazy', and `nnml:other'. All the
mail that doesn't fit into the first two groups will be placed in the
last group.
This should be sufficient for reading mail with Gnus. You might want to give the other sections in this part of the manual a perusal, though. Especially see Choosing a Mail Backend and see Expiring Mail.
Getting Mail
Splitting Mail