Re: Using nnimap

[jerome.marant@free.fr (Jérôme Marant)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:


> Do you really get INBOX, or is it nnimap:INBOX, or nnimap+Free:INBOX?
> Please be precise.

  I'm sorry to bother you with this.

  I do connect to the server (typing login and password) and then
  when I type A A, I get:

  *:INBOX
  *:INBOX/sent-mail
  *:nndraft.nndraft

> 
> > From the Group buffer, type ^.  Do you see more than one nnimap server
> there?
> 
> Ah, oh.  I now remember that nnimap is your primary select method.
> Then, of course, you will see INBOX.

  Are primary and secondary select method conceptually different?
  What's the difference? 

> Please say precisely in extremely long-winded boring detail what
> happens.  I don't know what you mean by "nothing".  I'm sure that
> Emacs will react in _some_ way when you use C-u RET.

  After typing "A A", I do subscribe to INBOX with "u".
  Then, I do "L" and I can see INBOX in the susbribed groups list.

  0:INBOX

  When I type "g" or "M-g" on INBOX, gnus tells me that there are no
  news.

  When I use C-u RET on INBOX, gnus tells me that it cannot enter
  the Group.

> It's supposed to be simple.  It looks as if you did everything right.
> I don't know what might be wrong.

  I tried:

  (setq gnus-message-archive-method
      '(nnimap "Free"))

  but I don't know if this is mandatory and it did not change anything
  anyway.

> 
> Normally, adding (nnimap "" ...) to gnus-secondary-select-methods
> should be enough.
> 
> The only unusual thing I see is that you put (nnimap ...) in
> gnus-select-method, so nnimap is your native server.  Maybe not many
> people have tested this.  It has happened before that some things
> don't work so well when nnml or nnimap are used as native server.

  I will try to use it as a secondary method.
  BTW, what was problematic in nnimap as a primary method?

  Thanks.

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Jérôme MARANT