From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: IMAP and ESMTP Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:19:25 +0100 Message-ID: <871uefy9xe.fsf@gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356348005 28903 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2012 11:20:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: thorsopia@lavabit.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 24 12:20:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64y-0003TQ-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64k-0002bC-Fs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64T-0002YX-LB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:19:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64P-00010e-Eg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:40377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64P-0000zW-96 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ip-90-20-179-93.dialup.ice.net ([93.179.20.90] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tn64A-0004Ua-QE; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:19:31 +0100 X-Now-Playing: Winston Tong's _Theoretically Chinese_ In-Reply-To: (thorsopia@lavabit.com's message of "Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:23:49 -0400 (EDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1Tn64A-0004Ua-QE MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1356952771.52356@X5CA9HPQ7q/TqkjuVoKA5Q X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:88307 Archived-At: thorsopia@lavabit.com writes: > (mail-source . (imap :server "mail.example.com" > :port 993 > :user "john" > :stream tls > :authentication ;; What > should I specify? > :program ;; What should I specify? > :mailbox ;; What should I specify? > :dontexpunge nil)) Well, you probably shouldn't use IMAP as a mail source at all, because that means that you'll be downloading all of the mail from the IMAP server. Instead you should use nnimap. > How to configure ESMTP? There is a howto [4], but I don't understand > it. Could you elaborate? I think that howto is outdated. In Emacs 24, you will be prompted for the SMTP setup the first time you send email, so no configuration is necessary. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen