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Re: struggling with gnus imap
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Richard Riley |
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Re: struggling with gnus imap |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:43:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> 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.
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