Re: using gnus for mail

[Hadron Quark]

Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Firstly, is anyone successfully connecting and reading from
>>>> pop.gmail.com?
>>>
>>> There was a thread quite recently on pop and authinfo. 
>
>> do you have a link to a google archive please? The only one I can find
>> just talks about not using authinfo - nothing to do with the succesful
>> connecting and email transfer from   pop.gmail.com.
>
> No, but as the poster asked how to do that because he conneted to
> gmail.  So my guess is that the usual way works:

It doesnt. I dont know why. See other posts coming from frustrated pop
users.

Clearly, It works for you. What is in your .gnus.el?

>
>
> (setq mail-sources '(( pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                   :user "yourgmailname" 
>                                   :password "yourgmail password")))
>
> Have you tried that?
>       

Yes. It doesnt. I dont know why. For a start it uses ssl an port 995 : I
tried lots of examples including loading ssl, pop3 etc but couldnt get
it working and my knowledge of emacs elisp is not good enough to know
why.

Now I simply have:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnmaildir "MyMail" (directory "~/Mail/"))))     

in my .gnus.el and rely on fetchmail and procmail which still worked
from a previous attempt to use MUTT as my email client (I stopped
because of Mutt's apparent poor showing in contact list handling).