From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Earl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:18:01 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87zkt0c8ue.fsf@notengoamigos.org> References: <86fwuvc6el.fsf@betla.home> <87lj4lns8e.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <85c17ccf-ea19-4044-b003-74ca7026c63c@k5g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291949205 19835 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:46:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:46:40 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQt0J-00014C-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:46:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQt0I-0000fU-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:46:38 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="azQPONUhcoIEQSjVJYw64g"; logging-data="13578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Lg6Xk1by4xJ/oBE/mRZcf" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAAlw SFlzAAASmwAAEpsB4JJZDAAAAAl2cEFnAAAAMAAAADAAzu6MVwAAAaFJREFUSMe1VtuxxSAIzIz9 2Iyl2Aj1bBX0k5+LrwjGjJyPy2ROwtGNBJbVCwwwy1UNoOL3f+SBxkj15Lr4NsboN24DWMZxYQNA TjGmjC1gswJiqBbpDeANYMwXBFyAFB5L7ADMBcoSDgAFBSDHR2tA8ABMSB4AawB76pAnILsKx2lm 1VfpgUi3kxrySylRHdmQj40Jva2/jl8EY3Twv/phhsC9nIQR0hnAOUptYsL3RxvAk+YIH2AWsvTH GYBgKn8GaPYm5jNANaCQ8WfAzyH9x0crFfGl9X4QVdg8gEqN2KjBHi6V/iBq6iyAxTqd+Yvupwai VwM9LZkxQ6otihmS6H+mHlK5URwi0UQgWxHoxS5JagBSed7IzJRCallS2pg2QsamcGUFNSHgLZUv augJIUualv1Bv6+yVat1oeMq92s/mBBWQJH7dQX7CnpvWWs/4CazpHlB2RR1BFSzNGdIaTbbLil8 U76BKKU0GztapXP3C78bNYQ6MTQybY8OkIaITf9HPzyHkXE4YXs4mf5VDz+jAepj3RTQ3Ubv0SPy 9AcCrfKh0TBgvgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAxMC0wNC0zMFQyMzo1NDo0My0wNjowMKID BVQAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMTAtMDQtMzBUMjM6NTQ6NDItMDY6MDB1KbZcAAAAAElF TkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:HogRMLbdr88tGspC5dobT+IA6Cg= sha1:U1UiyckeMVAP1qAUXuz1q7AH54M= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182592 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:20 -0500 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:77223 Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 23 2010, Elena wrote: > On Nov 22, 6:11 pm, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> I highly recommend gnus even though the learning curve is steep >> initially especially in terms of configuration (but, as already stated, >> you only need to do this once...). > > You've forgotten to mention the steep learning curve means messing > with your mailbox too, possibly deleting some mails from your server. > Yeah, I know the Unix way: steep learning curve and shooting in your > own foot all the way to achieve even basic tasks. Every mail client > I've tried just asks you about your mail address and addresses of your > servers. Gnus is not smart enough to do it. Stay away from Gnus, > this is my advice. Here is a basic setup that will connect gnus to an IMAP server on port 993 via ssl. In short, if all you need is the sort of basic setup that you get from other mail clients this will suit you just fine. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "mail" (nnimap-address "your.mail.server") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-authenticator login)))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Jason