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1 | @title Configuring Gnus for the first time |
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3 | @node What do you want to do with Gnus? | |
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5 | @variable outbound (:radio ((item :tag "Send mail via sendmail" "sendmail") (item :tag "Send mail via SMTP" "smtp"))) "sendmail" | |
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7 | @variable backends (:set ((item :tag "Read news via NNTP" "nntp") (item :tag "Read mail, store it locally" "nnml") (item :tag "Read mail and store it on an IMAP server" "nnimap"))) (list "nnml") | |
8 | @result primary-mail-selections (list backends outbound) | |
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10 | @text | |
11 | Welcome to Gnus. You need to tell us what you want to do with Gnus | |
12 | before we go on to specific configurations. | |
13 | ||
14 | Choose the tasks you want to set up: | |
15 | @variable{backends} | |
16 | ||
17 | Choose the method Gnus will use to send mail: | |
18 | @variable{outbound} | |
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20 | @end text | |
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22 | @next (member "nnml" backends) "Setting up local mail storage (nnml)" | |
23 | @next (member "nntp" backends) "Setting up a NNTP server" | |
24 | ||
25 | @node Setting up local mail storage (nnml) | |
26 | @variable mechanism (:radio ((item :tag "Get mail from your Unix mbox" "mbox") (item :tag "Use POP3 to retrieve mail" "pop3"))) "mbox" | |
27 | @result nnml-mechanism (list mechanism) | |
28 | @text | |
29 | You are setting up local mail storage, using the nnml backend in Gnus terms. | |
30 | ||
31 | Your mail can be downloaded into Gnus in several ways, choose one: | |
32 | @variable{mechanism} | |
33 | ||
34 | @end text | |
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38 | @node Setting up a NNTP server |
39 | ||
40 | @text | |
41 | TODO: this will be a real link. | |
42 | Run M-x assistant and use the news-server.ast file as input. | |
43 | @end text | |
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47 | \f |
48 | @c Local variables: | |
49 | @c mode: texinfo | |
50 | @c End: |