From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "William G Gardella" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:49:46 +0000 Message-ID: <874n4kq305.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87d2jfy0qb.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87wqhguckf.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391136622 20536 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 02:50:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:50:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Fri Jan 31 03:50:26 2014 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 1W94BV-0007Br-Ud for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:50:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W94BV-0001MO-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W94BC-0001IZ-1L for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W94B4-0004lW-Ni for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W94B4-0004lQ-Gt for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W94B3-0006xz-GX for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:49:57 +0100 Original-Received: from wannabe.torservers.net ([96.47.226.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:49:57 +0100 Original-Received: from wgg2 by wannabe.torservers.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:49:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wannabe.torservers.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pjp63Idbv9AYWtxIutLpWjzjabg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95820 Archived-At: nljlistbox2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org (N. Jackson) writes: > James Freer writes: > >> Well done because I found Gnus difficult to set up... and gave up. > > As far as using it is a mail client I gave up too (temporarily) the > first time around. But after using it as a newsreader essentially as it > came out of the box for several months, and gradually tweaking it to my > liking, when I revisited using it as a mail client this month, things > seemed an awful lot easier than they did back in the summer. > > (I'm not done yet though. The next challenge is outbound mail -- setting > it up to let me choose between multiple smtp servers.) You may find `gnus-posting-styles' and the "X-Message-SMTP-Method:" header (which gnus and message-mode use to hint to smtpmail.el which mailserver to use) useful for configuring multiple SMTP accounts. This renders unnecessary some of the complex hacks on the emacswiki. Alternatively, you could yse a userspace sendmail-replacement helper binary, such as msmtp, which is smart enough to use the "From:" header as a hint of which smtp server to use, and then just configure `message-send-mail-function' and `sendmail-program' appropriately to use this binary. -- Best, WGG