Re: Gnus: Error on setting up IMAP accounts

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

Okay, here's an update to some of the problems:

1) TAB-completion is not working (thanks to Julien Danjou who pointed out that I need Emacs 24 instead of 23.*)
2) Emacs 24 (to be more precise: Emacs-pretest-24.0.91-universal-10.6.7.dmg on http://emacsformacosx.com/builds) also clarified some of the other problems. Suddenly, Gnus is starting quite fast, both accounts (Gmail/Microsoft Exchange Server) are now checked for mails and can receive mails. 

I haven't got time yet to set up how they can *send* mail (I briefly tried, it's not possilbe without an additional lisp code). If someone has done this before, I'd be happy to have some advice (especially since Tassilo pointed out that some of the references are not updated according to the fast development of Gnus).
1) For Gmail, there's a wikipage:  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail
2) For a Microsoft Exchange Server, I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4266241/using-gnus-within-emacs-to-access-mail-from-microsoft-exchange2010
Not sure if 1) and 2) are helpful, though. I'll try.

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-10-29, at 20:33 , Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
>> The connection to mail.uni.edu at startup works quite fast (about 1s),
>> but the I get asked "Buffer has a running process; kill it?" If I
>> choose yes, then "imap: Connecting to imap.googlemail.com..." appears
>> (again, for as long as I don't abort it with C-g).
> 
> This "Buffer has running process" thingy rings some bell.  I think there
> was a discussion lately on emacs-devel or ding.  You might want to have
> a look.
> 
>> Also, the (org-contacts-gnus-insinuate) statement did not change
>> anything concerning the completion (I am in the "To" line and type
>> "Us" + TAB. I expect to get "User", but nothing happens), but that's
>> certainly not the major problem at the moment.
> 
> When you are in a message buffer, what's the value of
> `completion-at-point-functions'?  It should include
> `org-contacts-message-complete-function'.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> (What the world needs (I think) is not
>      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
>      but (an English (with more.)))
> Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf
> 
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