From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Email Help Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:09:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgt05j1s.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87o89k3nhb.fsf@zoho.eu> <87bl5k3muj.fsf@zoho.eu> <87h7fcfn8w.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> <878s0of42n.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> <87y28neohs.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> <87h7f8apq3.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15298"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:WmgJBdHbV2sPjGNTT/NT5yywbgE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 18:10:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNOW-0003hm-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:10:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49552 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNOT-00080m-Lc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNNl-00080W-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNNk-00048g-Bc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNNh-0002ks-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:10:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132820 Archived-At: Samuel Banya wrote: > I was debating setting up Emacs for Fastmail via mu-4e > or GNUS. > > How easy is it to set this up if you have an existing mail > provider like Fastmail? I don't know how simple/difficult it is with mu4e but with Gnus is it as simple as with a/any GUI client, the difference is you have to setup the POP and SMTP (or whatever) settings in Elisp instead of a GUI window with fields and buttons. I recommend the nnml backend for mail, that way you get 1 file on your disk for ever 1 mail sent or received ... Take a look here [1], it says The first thing you must do is creating a gnus configuration file. Open ~ /.gnus.el. Tell Gnus who you are. Do so with the lines (setq user-mail-address "you@domain.com" user-full-name "Your Full Name") Then you just continue ... [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal