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[86.154.97.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mw4sm163465wib.12.2014.05.02.15.29.55 for (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 02 May 2014 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) X-X-Sender: james@james In-Reply-To: <83a9b1ud0o.fsf@example.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::22b 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:97542 Archived-At: 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