From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mauro Sacchetto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading mail Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:25:33 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <87iqapi6k8.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87hbq90vw6.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> Reply-To: mauro.sacchetto@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264534991 27562 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2010 19:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 20:43:03 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 4.50) id 1NZrJV-0006K5-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZrJX-0006Gb-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:43:03 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: S+EvyQ/Rbw+oXBYR4Dr5aw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176420 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:71491 Archived-At: Richard Riley wrote: > rmail is pretty "old school" ;) You might be better off with gnus - some > people hate it. Many more love it. It is a learning curve there though. I'm trying... > To clarify : when you installed gnus in debian (I think you said) that > is used with emacs 22 hence the debian repository manager assumed you > wanted emacs 22 too. Uninstall both emacs 22 and gnus. Then using > update-alternatives (google!) check emacs 23 is your default. Yes, I'be installed only Emacs 23 > With a straightforward email setup with one account you might want to > install sendmail. and the gnutls packages. With a more complicated set > up you might not even used sendmail and instead use something like msmtp > which can use multiple smtp servers - that is probably something for you > to read up on at a later date. I've already msmtp, which I use with Mutt > With Gnus the lines you listed wont work. You need to use the select > methods described in the Gnus manual and in numerous locations in > google. e,g > > ,---- > | (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mymail" > | (nnimap-stream tls) > | (nnimap-address "imap.myhost.net") > | (nnimap-authinfo-file > | "~/.authinfo.gpg") > | (nnir-search-engine imap))) > `---- After having red a lot of web pages, I tried thid lines in ~/.gnus: | (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "gmail" | (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com") | (nnimap-server-port 993) | (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") | (nnimap-stream ssl))) but I'm still unable to read mail, only news... Thanx again M.