From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and offline Email
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:07:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zil1zxr4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2d1hy9rfq.fsf@fgunbin.local
Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/11/2016 16:11 +0100, Tim Zander wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> My email provider is openmailbox.org and I am using GNU Emacs 26.0.50.2
>> on Trisquel 7.0 (if this makes any difference).
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>
> A less popular, but working way is to download mail via IMAP as you
> would do via POP. Like that:
>
> (setq mail-sources '((imap :server "yourserver.com"
> :user "you@yourserver.com"
> :stream tls)))
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnfolder "mailserver"
> (nnfolder-directory "~/mailfolder"))))
Interesting. So, for my own information, this basically creates a
one-way sync with your mail server? What happens if, say, you delete a
message locally, then sync again? Will it replace the message, or is it
a "blind" one-way sync?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-14 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-12 15:11 Gnus and offline Email Tim Zander
2016-11-12 19:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-14 20:42 ` Tim Zander
2016-11-14 21:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-14 12:28 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-11-14 19:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-11-15 10:34 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-11-15 17:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-11-15 17:44 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
2016-11-17 13:47 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-11-17 16:57 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
2016-11-21 10:34 ` Eric S Fraga
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