Re: Configuring gnus for gmail

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Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> "Rodolfo Medina" <romeomedina@libero.it> writes:
>
>> I've tried to follow the indications at:
>>
>> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287
>>
>> in order to configure gnus to fetch and send mail from and to
>> gmail, but it doesn't work: gnus sticks when opened.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Is anybody there who has a direct experience in the matter?
>
>
> That's the way:

When I compile emacs following the instructions I get a white emacs
which says it cant load ~/.gnus

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> I downloaded and installed emacs cvs (see:
>
>  http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=8004
>
> );
>
> I downloaded and installed gnus cvs (see:
>
>  
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/tree/browse_frm/thread/09c171f0fc7182a8/adff32b02f135708?hl=en&rnum=11&lnk=nl
>
> );
>
> from
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error 
> I downloaded libgpg-error-1.1.tar.gz and installed it the usual way; 
>
> from 
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/ 
> I downloaded libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.gz and installed it the usual way; 
>  
> from 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ 
> I downloaded gnutls-1.2.9.tar.bz2 and installed it the usual way; 
>  
> from 
> http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/root/gnus/lisp/pop3.el?only_with_tag=t-gnus-6_17-quimby&rev=1.6.30.21.4.16
> I fetched the file pop3.el, put it in '~/' and did:
> $ cd ~/gnus/lisp
> $ mv pop3.el pop3.el-original
> $ cp ~/pop3.el pop3.el
> ;
>
> I removed `~/tmp/libgpg-error-1.1.tar.gz', `~/tmp/libgpg-error-1.1',
>         `~/tmp/libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.gz', `~/tmp/libgcrypt-1.2.2',
>         `~/tmp/gnutls-1.2.9.tar.bz2', `~/tmp/gnutls-1.2.9',
>         `~/tmp/pop3.el'.
> In .gnus.el I put the following stuff:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ; The following line is needed when using pop3.el from T-gnus (m17n.org).
> (eval-after-load "mail-source" '(require 'pop3))
>
> (setq user-full-name "Rodolfo Medina")
> (setq user-mail-address "rodolfo.medina@gmail.com")
>
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                         :port 995
>                         :user "rodolfo.medina"
>                         :connection ssl
>                         :leave t)))
>
> ; Sending mail
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil)))
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 
> "rodolfo.medina@gmail.com" nil)))
> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
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