From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Freer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:20:25 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87d2jfy0qb.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390735250 30170 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 11:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "N. 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95665 Archived-At: On 1/26/14, N. Jackson wrote: > "Loris Bennett" writes: >> Hi N, > > Hi Loris, thank you for your response. > >> http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_398.html#SEC451 > > I had missed that there is a FAQ buried in the appendices of the Gnus > Info manual! It contains some quite useful tips that led me directly or > indirectly to most of the solutions to my puzzle. :) > >> Gnus does work with IMAP. Look here: >> >> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html > > Yes. I had spent quite a bit of time in this part of the manual > previously. I had the IMAP part set up "correctly". What I was missing > (until the last couple of days) was the other parts of the puzzle: > Viewing my inbox and other mail folders / filing read mail / navigating > to filed mail folders. > > I now have methods for those mostly sorted out. > > The only real inconvenience remaining is that when I configure variables > for Gnus the values are global, and I don't see yet how to restrict > their scope to a particular server or group or retrieval method. > >> I haven't used RMAIL for years, but look here: >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Mailboxes.html#Remote-Mailboxes > > It doesn't seem that RMAIL does what I want at all, and now that I have > things almost working in Gnus, I guess I won't be investigating this > avenue further at this point. > >>> 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor >> >> This is probably possible. However, it strikes me as a little bizarre >> since there are solutions within Emacs > > Indeed. It doesn't look like I will need to resort to this. Gnus it > is. :) > >> Cheers, >> >> Loris Well done because I found Gnus difficult to set up... and gave up. Rather too involved for me although I did set up Mutt but didn't find it to my liking. I used Alpine which reads the server well and works fine with emacs... for me and my more limited abilites. james