From: James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 23:29:53 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405022325460.3259@james> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9b1ud0o.fsf@example.com>
On Thu, 1 May 2014, David Hume wrote:
>
>> You managed to get yahoo working with imap. I've been trying to do that
>> without success.
>>
>>> And got gmail and yahoo working with imap, at least for reading. I had
>>> to set up application passwords for both as I have second factor
>>> authentication.
>>
>> What imap and smtp codes did you use? From what I can gather yahoo has imap
>> codes for reading mail on mobile phone apps but not PC email.
>>
>
> Notice that this is gnus, not rmail.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by codes.
>
> I also have a .auth file. I have this in .gnus:
>
> (setq user-full-name "????????")
> (setq user-mail-address "????????@yahoo.co.uk")
>
> (setq rmail-preserve-inbox t)
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "gmail"
> (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
> (nnimap-server-port 993)
> (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "yahoo"
> (nnimap-address "imap.mail.yahoo.com")
> (nnimap-server-port 993)
> (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
> smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.mail.yahoo.com" 587 nil nil))
> smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.mail.yahoo.com" 587 "????????@yahoo.co.uk" nil))
> smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
> smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
> smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
Sorted now - many thanks David
I used ssl 465 and all is fine. Perhaps yahoo have changed to imap... the last
time I tried I'm sure one could only use pop.
james
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-02 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 19:11 tutorial for rmail and IMAP Sam Halliday
2014-04-23 19:23 ` David Hume
2014-04-23 20:45 ` Sam Halliday
2014-05-01 7:28 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.430.1398929317.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 8:19 ` David Hume
2014-05-01 8:45 ` James Freer
2014-05-02 22:29 ` James Freer [this message]
2014-04-23 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-23 22:45 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-23 23:20 ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-23 23:48 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-24 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-26 5:34 ` James Freer
2014-04-26 9:40 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-26 12:03 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.79.1398505245.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-26 13:01 ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-26 15:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-26 16:12 ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-26 16:06 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-24 2:59 ` Hans BKK
[not found] <87mwf7yept.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net>
2014-04-30 0:50 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-30 20:18 ` Sam Halliday
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