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From: James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 23:29:53 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405022325460.3259@james> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9b1ud0o.fsf@example.com>

On Thu, 1 May 2014, David Hume wrote:
>
>> You managed to get yahoo working with imap. I've been trying to do that
>> without success.
>>
>>> And got gmail and yahoo working with imap, at least for reading. I had
>>> to set up application passwords for both as I have second factor
>>> authentication.
>>
>> What imap and smtp codes did you use? From what I can gather yahoo has imap
>> codes for reading mail on mobile phone apps but not PC email.
>>
>
> Notice that this is gnus, not rmail.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by codes.
>
> I also have a .auth file. I have this in .gnus:
>
> (setq user-full-name "????????")
> (setq user-mail-address "????????@yahoo.co.uk")
>
> (setq rmail-preserve-inbox t)
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "gmail"
>                                  (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
>                                  (nnimap-server-port 993)
>                                  (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "yahoo"
>                                  (nnimap-address "imap.mail.yahoo.com")
>                                  (nnimap-server-port 993)
>                                  (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>      smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.mail.yahoo.com" 587 nil nil))
>      smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.mail.yahoo.com" 587 "????????@yahoo.co.uk" nil))
>      smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
>      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
>      smtpmail-smtp-service 587)

Sorted now - many thanks David
I used ssl 465 and all is fine. Perhaps yahoo have changed to imap... the last 
time I tried I'm sure one could only use pop.

james



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-02 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 19:11 tutorial for rmail and IMAP Sam Halliday
2014-04-23 19:23 ` David Hume
2014-04-23 20:45   ` Sam Halliday
2014-05-01  7:28   ` James Freer
     [not found]   ` <mailman.430.1398929317.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01  8:19     ` David Hume
2014-05-01  8:45       ` James Freer
2014-05-02 22:29       ` James Freer [this message]
2014-04-23 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-23 22:45 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-23 23:20   ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-23 23:48     ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-24  2:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-26  5:34   ` James Freer
2014-04-26  9:40     ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-26 12:03       ` James Freer
     [not found]     ` <mailman.79.1398505245.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-26 13:01       ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-26 15:11         ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-26 16:12           ` Sam Halliday
2014-04-26 16:06         ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-24  2:59 ` Hans BKK
     [not found] <87mwf7yept.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net>
2014-04-30  0:50 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-30 20:18   ` Sam Halliday

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