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: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:59:08 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <86fwuvc6el.fsf@betla.home> <87lj4lns8e.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <85c17ccf-ea19-4044-b003-74ca7026c63c@k5g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <87zkt0c8ue.fsf@notengoamigos.org> <0896fa7c-ce71-4865-bac7-d78d665b5421@n32g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <87eiaacs3e.fsf@notengoamigos.org> 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 1291959537 21859 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 05:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:38:57 +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 06:38:53 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 1PQvgy-0001rs-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:38:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQuZZ-0005Lg-Fa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:27:09 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1290635948 14406 85.183.18.158 (24 Nov 2010 21:59:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:59:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182618 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:38 -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:77359 Archived-At: Jason Earl writes: > On Wed, Nov 24 2010, Elena wrote: > >> On Nov 23, 4:18 pm, Jason Earl wrote: >>> 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--- >> >> Thank you very much, Jason. However, my server is a POP one, >> otherwise I guess Gnus would not have been dumb enough to start >> downloading my mails and deleting them assuming I knew some bizantine >> settings to avoid that beforehand. Thunderbird may be big and slow, >> but at least it does not make such assumptions. >> >> For a text-based mail-client, I'm looking into Alpine now. > > It has been a long time since I have used a pop3 client, but when I used > to support such beasts downloading the messages (and deleting them from > the server) is precisely what they were *supposed* to do. I would not > be surprised if most modern email clients still downloaded the messages > and deleted them from the server when using pop3. I've never had a POP3 client delete from the server when it reads. Certainly using Gmail one of the first in your face options is whether to retain a copy on the server. It's a server side setting normally isn't it?