Re: Gnus and Gmail

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Quoth "Lorenzo Isella" <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com>:
> what is the gnus-init file? Is it another name for gnus.el? 

Yes it is.

> I wonder it the following would be easier: could somone who is using
> gnus+gmail on Debian post me his configuration files?

I use smtpmail.el, not msmtp.  This works for me.

N.B.

 1. the 'gnutls-cli' program is a separate program entirely, included in
    the Debian package; gnutls-bin.

 2. this code only deals with SENDING and it lives in my ~/.emacs, not
    my ~/.gnus.  It's possible to send mail (using the function
    (message-mail)) without loading gnus.
 
 3. hope this helps.  don't give up.  it's worth it in the end.

 (setq ;; use Gnus' message mode instead of plain Mail mode
       mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent
       ;; 
       message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
       ;; display all headers (not just To: and Subject:)
       message-generate-headers-first t
       ;; nil to disable alias expansion (aliae found in ~/.mailrc)
       message-mail-alias-type 'abbrev
       ;; smtpmail
       starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli"
       ;; CHANGE SMTP SERVER HERE
       smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
       smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" 
       ;; you only need one of these, but I'm not sure which
       smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 "foo@bar.baz" "password"))
       smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 "foo@bar.baz" "password"))
       ;; Gmail uses port 587 for accepting mail submissions
       smtpmail-smtp-service 587         
       ;; if t, use smptmail-send-queued-mail to send
       smtpmail-queue-mail nil
       smtpmail-debug-info t)
       

Sebastian