From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Loris Bennett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:20:27 +0200 Organization: ZEDAT, Freie =?utf-8?Q?Universit=C3=A4t?= Berlin Message-ID: <87lg84496s.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <871s9wh1d3.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536924203 8450 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 11:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:23:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 13:23:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mBy-00027F-O7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:23:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0mE4-00042j-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 07:25:28 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 5Jqg4Ovedi4s9ifnRLrmIQiV3FhCQ4+wIbfAtsyHMU/L6U Cancel-Lock: sha1:db3tbrHDOII6bRGI2Y/v8zD34bo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223781 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117906 Archived-At: Devin Prater writes: > I'm still looking for a good way to use Gnus. I have a few email addresses, and > putting in all the server info is quite a bit of work compared to > other,non-Emacs clients, like Gmail, Apple Mail, and even Outlook. They look at > the @domain, like @gmail.com, in the Email Address, and just get the server info > from that, and its good. > I know that many probably use their own mail server, or do some mystical Emacs > stuff to make it faster, but as a person who has come from the GUI all his life, > but also loves the simple genius of a UI and UX that Emacs offers, I'd love to > have the option to streamline all this, kind of like the setup for ZSH, which is > just awesome., > > Devin Prater > Assistive Technology Instructor certified by World Services for the Blind > JAWS certified You can obviously do a lot of fancy stuff with Gnus, but to get going something like the following should be enough: (require 'gnus) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote ((nnimap "gmx" (nnimap-stream tls) (nnimap-address "imap.gmx.com")) (nnimap "gmail" (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")) ))) As you say, you have to find the appropriate values for 'nnimap-stream', but you only have to do that once. Having thus smugly claimed that setting up Gnus is easy, I must admit that, before finally switching a few years ago, I had tried and failed on a number of occasions, so YMMV. [snip (65 lines)] Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de -- This signature is currently under construction.