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gnus: Fetching Mail

 
 6.4.4.4 Fetching Mail
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 The way to actually tell Gnus where to get new mail from is to set
 ‘mail-sources’ to a list of mail source specifiers (Mail Source
 Specifiers).
 
    If this variable is ‘nil’, the mail back ends will never attempt to
 fetch mail by themselves.
 
    If you want to fetch mail both from your local spool as well as a POP
 mail server, you’d say something like:
 
      (setq mail-sources
            '((file)
              (pop :server "pop3.mail.server"
                   :password "secret")))
 
    Or, if you don’t want to use any of the keyword defaults:
 
      (setq mail-sources
            '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/user-name")
              (pop :server "pop3.mail.server"
                   :user "user-name"
                   :port "pop3"
                   :password "secret")))
 
    When you use a mail back end, Gnus will slurp all your mail from your
 inbox and plonk it down in your home directory.  Gnus doesn’t move any
 mail if you’re not using a mail back end—you have to do a lot of magic
 invocations first.  At the time when you have finished drawing the
 pentagram, lightened the candles, and sacrificed the goat, you really
 shouldn’t be too surprised when Gnus moves your mail.
 

Info Catalog gnus: Mail Source Customization gnus: Mail Sources