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 21:24:50 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3dny4jv.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390699510 2976 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 01:25:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:25:10 +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 02:25:18 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 1W7ETO-0000FY-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7ETN-0004bn-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:25:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 73 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:GwXgwoRnRyl6a3k08A0SjdwdoxA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203392 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:95660 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hi! Hi Tassilo, thank you for your response. >> I'd like to be able to see both my read and unread mail in my inbox >> and have the two distinguished in some way. > ,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ] How would I go about setting this for (a) specific (server or) servers, or for (a) specific (group or) groups, or for a specific retrieval method (i.e. just for nnimap and not for nntp), rather than globally for all of Gnus? Restricting the scope of settings is part of the Gnus puzzle that I haven't figured out yet. > You can also enter the summary buffer using `C-u RET' instead > of just `RET'. That will show you the latest of articles in > the group, no matter if new or read. This doesn't quite work for me as I don't know the total number of messages. However this suggestion led me to discover that I can do a /o command (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) and a M-C-t command (gnus-summary-toggle-threads) (to turn off threading) in the Summary Buffer when I open my inbox (or other mail folder). This gives me exactly the view that I want. :) Now I just need to learn how to configure things so that this is the view I get automatically in mail folders/groups. > Of course Gnus does IMAP. Well, this is very good news. :) After initially being taken aback by the bluntness of this communication, it encouraged me to dig a bit deeper. I'm a lot more familiar with Gnus now (after using it as a newsreader for six months) than I was when I initially tried to set it up for mail, and things have gone much more smoothly this time around. After working with it the last couple of days, I almost have it set up satisfactorily. :) However, there isn't really any "of course" about it; and "does IMAP" is not well defined. However, it's looking as if Gnus's IMAP support does the things that I need. > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Using IMAP") ] These three nodes I had read through several times and they don't seem especially useful beyond getting IMAP mail to behave roughly like POP3 mail. > Seems you are using `mail-sources' instead of nnimap. Nope. I was using nnimap. I just didn't have the other pieces of the puzzle for viewing mail folders / filing mail / and browsing to filed mail. Those pieces are now almost all in place. >> Did I miss something, or am I correct in thinking Gnus lacks the >> ability to interact with an IMAP server in that way? > Yes, you are wrong. Indeed. Thank you for your insistence on this. I had previously given up because it didn't seem worth struggling to try get Gnus to do something if it might not be capable of it. Knowing that it is so capable gave me the encouragement to find out how to do it! > Bye, Tassilo Bye Tassilo, and thank you. N.