Re: Basic setup of Gnus for IMAP mail

[jean . magnanb]

napofrog@hotmail.com (Roger Levy) wrote :



> Thanks for the response! <see below>
>
> David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote in message news:<y68acu0c8zc.
fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>...
>> napofrog@hotmail.com (Roger Levy) writes:
>> 
>> > I'm trying to set up Gnus to work as an IMAP mail client at home, for
>> > the mail server at my university.  I think I have the basic settings
>> > right:
>> >
>> > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>> >  '((nnimap ""
>> >       (nnimap-address "<myname>.pobox.<my-university>.edu")
>> >       (nnimap-list-pattern "INBOX")
>> 
>> That tells Gnus that the only group you're interested in is
>> nnimap:INBOX.  The default value, "*", lets it look at all of the
>> groups on the server.
>
> Yeah, I tried this too, no dice.
>
>> 
>> >       (nnimap-stream ssl)
>> >       (nnimap-server-port 993)))
>> > )
>> >
>> > but I can't find any nnimap groups to subscribe to.
>> 
>> Can you otherwise connect to the IMAP server?  Can you browse it from
>> the server buffer ("^" from the group buffer)?
>
> Thanks for this tip.  In the server buffer, I get
>
>   {nnimap:} (denied)
Maybe your problem is a permission problem. I use this:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmaildir "courrier"
                                           (directory "/home/jean/.mail"))
                                      (nnimap "Free"
                                      (nnimap-address "imap.free.fr")
                                              (nnimap-authenticator login)
                                                      (nnimap-authinfo-file
                                      "/home/jean/.authinfo"))
)
an then the .authinfo file permits authentication to the server.

>
> so no, I can't browse it.
>
>> 
>> For my work setup, all I do is set
>> 
>>       gnus-select-method '(nnimap "smtp.example.com"
>>                                   (nnimap-stream ssl))
>> 
>> and it works great.
>> 
>> (For just checking whether your IMAP server exists, you might try a
>> different MUA.  At MIT, I'll occasionally browse my IMAP mailbox using
>> mutt, but for heavy-duty reading I use Gnus with IMAP fetching into
>> nnml.)
>
> I just tried with mutt from the same machine, and there were no
> problems, I could see my mailbox just fine.  The settings I'm using
> for mutt are (for user jdoe):
>
> set spoolfile=imap://jdoe.pobox.stanford.edu/INBOX
> set folder=imap://jdoe.pobox.stanford.edu/INBOX
> set imap_user=jdoe
> set ssl_starttls=no
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Roger