From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: struggling with gnus imap Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:43:08 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229618455 20800 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2008 16:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 17:42:01 2008 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 4.50) id 1LDLwl-000358-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDLvZ-0006BW-7k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!usenet238.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19EWI9MdszqYbsh/qqq998qXAPieax0FA3JWQHKHZEX2/W7fPctrZ3fGC3jlHTUBZorgNVHBDpKw819Z1WI1RnoRwDNYmmaCmvlnp1mnrYfzOE2o6pId9e5UaLY/yP8mjYMapwxgmVFTQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:44:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19ZvCW8BPYXPy57Y53BqMsz2c3Vs4XqmclZdxSr7vMdtw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:WyarqIm3ND+cSkiyNFd8IBZ68os= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165474 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:60800 Archived-At: Roger Mason writes: > Hello, > > I'm (still) trying to get gnus to let me use IMAP to read my email on > our university server. > > I have this in .gnus: > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '( > (nnml "") > (nnimap "mail.mun.ca" (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX"))) > )) > > When I try to subscribe using U in the *Group* buffer I get this: > > gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn't activate group mail.mun.ca: 411 No > such group mail.mun.ca > > I also tried subscribing to INBOX, with the same result. Can someone > tell me what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Roger My imap connection is like so: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-address "imap.server.net") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") (nnir-search-engine imap) ) Then you query a list of IMAP groups and subscribe as you do to usenet ones. -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970