Re: gnus as imap client: package url/ssl

[Leon]

On 24 Aug 2006 09:58:47 +0200, Martin Steffen wrote:

> hi,
>
> I fought in vain to get flush mails from the local imap server to
> my local disk-space using procmail, etc. and then having gnus
> read it locally.
>
>
> Too bad (I couldn't find out the reason; supported seems "Why don't you
> simply use firefox, everyone does!'', well, I got lot's of mails, and I
> want some decent handling of them, no clicking tiny buttons all day long,
> which means for me gnus...
>
> So I'm considering to gear up, i.e. forget about using procmail to split
> mails but use gnus as imap client.
>
> Now, here are two questions: the manual tells me: use the package 
>
>      ssl.el
>
> I found it, put it to my load path, but it "requires" packager "url". I
> tried to google that, but it sais at
>
>
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/url/
>
>
> that url.el does not longer exist, resp. that it is included in emacs.

emacs/22.0.51/lisp/url/url.el.gz

>
> Well, it's not in my distribution, anymay (require 'url) breaks loading
> ssl.el (I'm having here
>
>     GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
> 2003-08-12 on some-machine
>
>
>
> So, is all that no supported? What else should I use/do?
>

You can grab url from emacs cvs. It may work in emacs 21.3.

>
>
> The second question is more theoretical: does gnus allow me to "grep" 
> (search in some way) through emails kept at the imap server? (One reason
> that I like my emails at my local disk is that I can search them quickly).
>
> Thanks, Martin

-- 
Leon