Re: Gnus: Error on setting up IMAP accounts

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

Dear Tassilo,

thanks a lot.

I minimalized "gnus-secondary-select-methods" as you suggested. I also adjusted authinfo and put (org-contacts-gnus-insinuate) in .emacs.

The connection to mail.uni.edu at startup works quite fast (about 1s), but the I get asked "Buffer has a running process; kill it?" If I choose yes, then "imap: Connecting to imap.googlemail.com..." appears (again, for as long as I don't abort it with C-g). I also very briefly see "error in process filter: Internal error, tag 4 status BAD code nil text Command received in Invalid state."

Reading /Users/myuser/.newsrc.eld...
Reading active file via nnnil...done
Reading active file from address@uni.edu via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on address@uni.edu...
imap: Connecting to mail.uni.edu...
Waiting for response from mail.uni.edu...done
imap: Reconnecting with stream `starttls'...
Opening STARTTLS connection to `mail.uni.edu:143'...
Buffer has a running process; kill it? (y or n)y
imap: Reconnecting with stream `starttls'...failed
imap: Connecting to mail.uni.edu...done
Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo'.
imap: Authenticating to `mail.uni.edu' using `anonymous'...
imap: Logging in anonymously...
imap: Authenticating to `mail.uni.edu' using `anonymous'...failed
Opening nnimap server on address@uni.edu...done
Reading active file from address@googlemail.com via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on address@googlemail.com...
imap: Connecting to imap.googlemail.com...failed
Opening nnimap server on address@googlemail.com...failed
Opening nnimap server on address@uni.edu...
imap: Connecting to mail.uni.edu...failed
Opening nnimap server on address@uni.edu...failed
Opening nnimap server on address@googlemail.com...
Denied server nnimap+address@googlemail.com
Opening nnimap server on address@googlemail.com...failed
No new newsgroups
Checking new news...
Opening nndoc server on gnus-help...done
Checking new news...done

Also, the  (org-contacts-gnus-insinuate) statement did not change anything concerning the completion (I am in the "To" line and type "Us" + TAB. I expect to get "User", but nothing happens), but that's certainly not the major problem at the moment.

Please let me know if you need more details.

Cheers,

Marius


On 2011-10-29, at 10:09 , Tassilo Horn wrote:

> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
>> (setq user-mail-address "address@hidden")
>> (setq user-full-name "My Name")
>> 
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>   '((nnimap "address@hidden"; primary email account
>>             (nnimap-address "mail.uni.edu"); mail server address
>>             (nnimap-server-port 993); port
>>             (nnimap-authenticator login); authentication method
>>             )
>>     (nnimap "address@googlemail.com"; secondary email account
>>             (nnimap-address "imap.googlemail.com"); mail server address
>>             (nnimap-server-port 993); port
>>             (nnimap-authenticator login); authentication method
>>             ))
>> )
> 
> I'd probably start with just these gnus-secondary-s-m
> 
>  '((nnimap "address@hidden"
>            (nnimap-address "mail.uni.edu"))
>    (nnimap "gmail"
>            (nnimap-address "...")))
> 
> Most probably, that'll just work.  Gnus will automatically determine
> what's the most secure connection for the servers and use that.
> 
>> 3) ~/.authinfo (as before):
>> machine mail.uni.edu login mylogin port 993
>> machine imap.googlemail.com login address@googlemail.com port 993
> 
> Don't specify a port if not needed.  And add a "force yes" as last thing
> in each line.
> 
>> 4) If I start Gnus with M-x gnus, I see:
>> imap: Connecting to mail.uni.edu # I see this for about 2min; can't do anything else with emacs during that time
>> imap: Connecting to imap.googlemail.com # I see this for as long as I watch... The only chance to proceed is to hit C-g 
> 
> Probably, because you say Gnus to use port 993 with SSL while the
> servers prefer something else.  As said, start with a minimal setup.
> 
>> Q5: I have a file contacts.org containing all contacts in
>> "org-contacts"-form. My .emacs contains:
>> (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/contacts" load-path))
>> (require 'org-contacts)
>> (custom-set-variables
>> '(org-contacts-files '("~/org/contacts.org")))
>> [I found this here:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg37143.html] As
>> mentioned on http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html, this allows
>> for completion of addresses. I tried it, but I can't complete
>> addresses defined in contacts.org. What else do I have to specify?
> 
> You need to call
> 
>  (org-contacts-gnus-insinuate)
> 
> in your ~/.emacs or ~/.gnus.el to make that working.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
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>      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
>      but (an English (with more.)))
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