Re: problems reading IMAP mail

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Sep 21 2005, David Nash wrote:

> Matthias Buelow:
>>Why don't you use fetchmail?
> I gather this comes with emacs v22 (and not in v21)?

No, it's an external program.  But I'd recommend not to use it for
IMAP if you stay with Gnus.

> Yes, like this in my .gnus file:
>
>>(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>         '(
>>          ;; IMAP server
>>          (nnimap "IMAP" (nnimap-address "<mailhost>")
>>                         (nnimap-user "<username>")))
>>          (nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail t))

One pair of brackets in the last line is bogus.  `nnimap-user' is not
used; at least in the current Gnus sources.  I would use ~/.authinfo
instead:

,----[ ~/.authinfo ]
| # With recent Gnusae, you can write the alias (e.g. "IMAP") here:
| machine IMAP login <username>
| # Else, use the server name:
| machine <mailhost> login <username>
`----

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '(;; IMAP server
        (nnimap "IMAP"
                (nnimap-address "<mailhost>")))
      nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail t)

Bye, Reiner.
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