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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:20:05 -0400
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From: Fazlul Shahriar <fshahriar@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command
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I just tried -- it works fine with gmail.

mailfs -t imap.gmail.com    # -t enable TLS
It'll ask your for your username/password. Then start Mail in acme.

mailfs will look for stunnel in your system. In my system, it found
stunnel 4, which it doesn't know how to use. So, I had to point it to
stunnel3:

--- a/src/cmd/upas/nfs/imap.c	Thu Aug 11 07:43:28 2011 -0400
+++ b/src/cmd/upas/nfs/imap.c	Thu Aug 11 08:12:24 2011 -0400
@@ -756,8 +756,8 @@
 		fd[2] = dup(2, -1);
 		tmp = esmprint("%s:993", server);
 		if(threadspawnl(fd, "tlsclient", "tlsclient", tmp, nil) < 0
-		    && threadspawnl(fd, "/usr/sbin/stunnel", "stunnel", "-c", "-r",
tmp, nil) < 0
-		    && threadspawnl(fd, "/usr/bin/stunnel", "stunnel", "-c", "-r",
tmp, nil) < 0){
+		    && threadspawnl(fd, "/usr/sbin/stunnel3", "stunnel", "-c",
"-r", tmp, nil) < 0
+		    && threadspawnl(fd, "/usr/bin/stunnel3", "stunnel", "-c", "-r",
tmp, nil) < 0){
 			free(tmp);
 			close(p[0]);
 			close(p[1]);


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can anybody point me to some recipe which would get me from a point
>> when I have p9p installed to a point when I can read mail from my
>> gmail account via imap(s) in p9p acme?
>
> Well, that's a pity nobody can help.... :(
>
> Is there any reason for that man pages of p9p
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/
> do not mention neither upas nor mail?
> (So nobody actually uses it today?)
>
> Also, although some mail program is present,
> /src/cmd/acme/mail
> it is apparently not installed by default?
>
> [I'm tired of the web interface. I tried mutt, which was easy to set
> up since you can find instructions for this. But I want the acme mail.
> And there seem to be many things `somehow around', but not a coherent
> explanation of how to put the pieces (and which) together...]
>
> Thanks
> Ruda
>
>