From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and offline Email Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:37:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87twbc1od3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <58273138.4070808@openmailbox.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478986616 10909 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2016 21:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:36:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 22:36:53 2016 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 1c5fyK-0007Mr-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:36:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5fyN-0000BI-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5e7d-0004cn-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5e7a-000405-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48502 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5e7Z-0003zT-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c5e7R-00012Q-CW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 20:37:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:WrFvbTuBxfHmn8mAb7JqpPE1mJo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:36:00 -0500 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:111716 Archived-At: Tim Zander writes: > Dear all, > > how do I set-up Gnus (and my GNU/Linux operating) to read and send my > emails? Preferably with IMAP but it should also work offline. Everything > I found online was very old, but if you know that some guide still works > today I could give it a try. What most people do in your case is to install a local IMAP server, usually dovecot, on your local machine. Then use isync or offlineimap to sync that to the remote server. Gnus only ever talks to the local IMAP server. It's a little harder for offline sending. I use msmtp to send mails, and apparently there is a msmtp-queue package that will let send emails from Gnus, but queue them up until there's an internet connection to actually send them. Otherwise, you just use the Gnus agent, toggle unplugged, send as usual, and when you're back online, toggle plugged. HTH, Eric