From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:45:48 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2jfy0qb.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390701010 15811 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 01:50:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:50:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 26 02:50:19 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 1W7Era-0000eH-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7Era-00020a-0P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:50:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 07cqKf1t2ijTCYrNxnO8wQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ujsarb+WzdiBSQV7pP7ljCJbOuI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203393 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:95661 Archived-At: "Loris Bennett" writes: > Hi N, Hi Loris, thank you for your response. > http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_398.html#SEC451 I had missed that there is a FAQ buried in the appendices of the Gnus Info manual! It contains some quite useful tips that led me directly or indirectly to most of the solutions to my puzzle. :) > Gnus does work with IMAP. Look here: > > http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html Yes. I had spent quite a bit of time in this part of the manual previously. I had the IMAP part set up "correctly". What I was missing (until the last couple of days) was the other parts of the puzzle: Viewing my inbox and other mail folders / filing read mail / navigating to filed mail folders. I now have methods for those mostly sorted out. The only real inconvenience remaining is that when I configure variables for Gnus the values are global, and I don't see yet how to restrict their scope to a particular server or group or retrieval method. > I haven't used RMAIL for years, but look here: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Mailboxes.html#Remote-Mailboxes It doesn't seem that RMAIL does what I want at all, and now that I have things almost working in Gnus, I guess I won't be investigating this avenue further at this point. >> 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor > > This is probably possible. However, it strikes me as a little bizarre > since there are solutions within Emacs Indeed. It doesn't look like I will need to resort to this. Gnus it is. :) > Cheers, > > Loris Thanks Loris. N.