emacs/gnus on windows 7

emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Harry Putnam]

I am longtime emacs/gnus user on linux who is way confused on windows.

After googling a bit I find so much confusing and possibly outdated material
about setting up gnus on windows that I hopped to ask here for a URL or
directions that are current and I can understand.


After fiddling with the settings in thunderbird it seemed to require these
setting to work:

pop:

               Server: pop.newsguy.com port 110
                 User: XXmyuserXX
  Connection Security: none
Authentication method: Password Transmitted insecurely

==========================================================
        
smtp:
               Server: smtp.newsguy.com port 25
                 user: XXmyuserXX
Authentication method: Normal password
  Connection security: STARTTLS

Where can I find how that translates into `~/.emacs/.gnus' config?     

Re: emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:16:30 +0000 (UTC), Harry wrote:

> pop:

>                Server: pop.newsguy.com port 110
>                  User: XXmyuserXX
>   Connection Security: none
> Authentication method: Password Transmitted insecurely

> ==========================================================
        
> smtp:
>                Server: smtp.newsguy.com port 25
>                  user: XXmyuserXX
> Authentication method: Normal password
>   Connection security: STARTTLS

> Where can I find how that translates into `~/.emacs/.gnus' config?     

mail-sources described here:

 * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_179.html#SEC179

and

message-send-mail-function described here:

 * http://gnus.org/manual/message_36.html#SEC36

perhaps?


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "Mere snak, mindre musik                                     Adam Sjøgren
  Det her går den gale vej"                              asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Carson Chittom]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> smtp:
>                Server: smtp.newsguy.com port 25
>                  user: XXmyuserXX
> Authentication method: Normal password
>   Connection security: STARTTLS
>
> Where can I find how that translates into `~/.emacs/.gnus' config?     

I could not get the Windows-native GnuTLS to work with Gnus (though
admittedly I gave up after about ten minutes), and I didn't feel like
messing with Cygwin, so I used MSMTP[1].  Works like a charm.

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusMSMTP



-- 
Carson M. Chittom
Director, Mississippi Employee Appeals Board

Re: emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Mon, Dec 19 2011,Carson Chittom wrote:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>

[snipped 10 lines]

> messing with Cygwin, so I used MSMTP[1].  Works like a charm.
>
> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusMSMTP

Hey, I wrote that article and am tickled pink that someone out there
found it useful.

 sivaram
 -- 

Re: emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:04:49 -0600 Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov> wrote: 

CC> I could not get the Windows-native GnuTLS to work with Gnus (though
CC> admittedly I gave up after about ten minutes)

Could you let me know the IMAP or POP3 host that failed?  If it's
private, would it be possible to give me a temporary account so I can
debug this?

Thanks
Ted

Re: emacs/gnus on windows 7

[Carson Chittom]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:04:49 -0600 Carson Chittom
> <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov> wrote:
>
> CC> I could not get the Windows-native GnuTLS to work with Gnus (though
> CC> admittedly I gave up after about ten minutes)
>
> Could you let me know the IMAP or POP3 host that failed?  If it's
> private, would it be possible to give me a temporary account so I can
> debug this?

My memory of nearly a month ago is a bit fuzzy, so I'm not *entirely*
sure what I was referring to (especially since the actual incident would
have been at least a month before that), but my best guess is that I was
trying to use SMTP on smtp.gmail.com

I also strongly suspect that my inability to get it to work was due to
user error, not GnuTLS.