Re: gnus, thunderbird and imap

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
>
>> Where do I find NoGnus? Is that just the development version of gnus
>> downloaded from the git repo? Is that necessary if I'm already using
>> the a developmental bzr version of Emacs (24.0.50.1) which comes with
>> Gnus v5.13?
>
> The version that comes with the development version of emacs is
> regularly synchronized with the Gnus development repository.  So it's
> pretty much the same at this point in time.  In particular, it includes
> the new nnimap version.

Ok, that's good. The new nnimap is still pretty slow on my machine, so I
may look into setting up a local imap server.

>> No kidding.  Two steps forward, three steps back.  If I don't get this
>> running semi-smoothly soon I'll be out of time for this latest
>> attempt.
>
> I didn't follow the threads, but maybe you are trying to do too much at
> once?  Setting up Gnus for a few imap accounts is pretty easy:

Yes, getting the actual IMAP set up was easy enough. I assumed that was
under control and proceeded to investigate splitting, which remains a
mystery. At one point I got the idea that maybe splitting only works for
the primary server, so I tried switching the nnimap server from the
secondary select method to the main select method, moving nntp to the
secondary select method. In the process, gnus lost most of my IMAP
folders. They're still there, but remained invisible (not killed or
zombified) until I updated emacs to the latest bzr version this morning.

> When that's done, then you might want to configure some posting styles
> and parameters:
>
>   (info "(gnus)Posting Styles")

I have a single posting style set up, so that my outgoing messages get
associated with my main email, not gmail.

>   (info "(gnus)Group Parameters")

Will look into this.

> Basically, that's all to get a fully functional Gnus for reading mail.

I suppose, but the payoff is supposed to be something that does
everything Thunderbird does and more, and my 'fully functional' system
doesn't yet have the filtering/splitting capacity that Thunderbird comes
with. I'll stick with it, because I like using Emacs generally. But I
couldn't recommend this to anyone who wasn't already an Emacs junky.

Cheers,

Tyler