From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:06:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6oo1lg0.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <871vmgoaav.fsf@mundaneum.com> <4AA766ED.90204@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252490894 31096 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2009 10:08:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:08:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 12:08:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlK5s-0002l5-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlK5s-00086M-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlK55-00080I-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlK50-0007xC-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33219 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlK50-0007wr-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47964) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlK4z-0006IF-Nj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlK4w-0002WG-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-088-068-195-193.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.68.195.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from politza by dslb-088-068-195-193.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:07:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-088-068-195-193.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nRWB+7MIldOs8va0vl1yvoUT6Wc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67987 Archived-At: ken writes: > But gnus has been problemmatic for me. I have multiple email accounts > which I access using imaps (running on different servers). Setting > these all up and managing them is a snap with Thunderbird. On the other > hand, I've spend *days* trying to get gnus to do the same and never did > get them anything close to working. So I gave up. There's too many > other things in my life to do. If there's ever clear and accurate > enough documentation on doing this, I might attempt it again. > Agree, for one the manual is more like a references. Also, it frequently introduces terms without explaining them properly (e.g. active group). Until I understood most of it's concepts, gnus got totally confused (from me killing groups, creating new groups with the same name, changing methods will it was running,etc. ) and it appeared to be broken. After I figured out the setup, I deleted everything gnus (News, .newsrc.eld, .newsrc, .newsrc-dribble) and now it's working. Actually you just have to setup a imap method (server) and subscribe to a group (folder) on that server. There appears to be no difference between primary and secondary method, though I really don't know. This will ignore the primary one. (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) Setup the imap servers. The list pattern is only necessary if the server makes a lot of folders available you are not interested in, e.g. a whole file-system. (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "imap.host1.net" (nnimap-list-pattern "Mail/*")) (nnimap "imap.host2.net"))) Start gnus (gnus) Go to server buffer. Move point to one of the servers and go into it. Press `u' on the folders you want to read. Quit server. Quit server buffer. Update all groups ^ RET u q q g This is with Gnus v5.13. > (But then, how does gnus handle html-formatted emails with images (e.g., > photos)...? PDFs?) I haven't gotten any HTML mail lately. 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