From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 589 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2022 06:01:24 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Apr 2022 06:01:24 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9ab-003bwH-1k for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:01:21 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9aa-007CNX-8j for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:01:20 -0500 Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9aX-007CNO-P8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:01:17 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9aV-007ZBS-Gq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:01:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=DVSyBaI76/IhkzJWXv7xt72VunxxTZveN712gIZjxQc=; b=Gxpr8S/V2Nn0r7G1FnbcA5dkd6 XskAFxgK+pZP7B0EhlMfj7wNlj+HAZwSShdX2TNlw9VJXoHJLSXpWljYEG7a15HPbpLkGgYod+ve1 Hijv3cvo+JGUra3vadLlhb6qs0dVE5jA/Q9lIwUpii+lkPK6Zbg7zeMPKbWUYoVbihgY=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9aM-0004lO-Rw for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:01:09 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ne9aK-0009gI-Fh for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:01:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org To: ding@gnus.org From: Emanuel Berg Subject: Re: set up Gnus to work with a remote system mailserver (with Dovecot?) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <877d7urgbq.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87fsmp1yk9.fsf@zoho.eu> <87h7757hb8.fsf@penguin> <87v8vlzj2z.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pmlts5bb.fsf@igel.home> <87ee29z57n.fsf@zoho.eu> <874k35z4zj.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o81dxpqm.fsf@zoho.eu> <87h7712m8m.fsf@penguin> <87mtgtqdx1.fsf@zoho.eu> <87ee24xouq.fsf@penguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yLEhR78OvtFzA6f3SrhUSZqkuPs= Mail-Copies-To: never List-ID: Precedence: bulk Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: >>>>>>>> I have a mail on that system, incal@dataswamp.org and >>>>>>>> it works to mail there, but, in order to check it out >>>>>>>> I do first ssh and then use the mail(1) utility. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And how does mail access the mailbox? >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know, it reads, in my case, /var/mail/incal ? >>>>> >>>>> Maybe the backend `nnmbox' ... >>>>> >>>>> (info "(gnus) Unix Mail Box") >>>> >>>> ... and then? >>> >>> Otherwise you do forward to zoho.eu, then you could check >>> all emails at one account . >> >> Yeah but what I would like is incal@dataswamp.org :( >> >> Actually that already works, to /var/mail/incal, but I can't >> read or send with Gnus. > > Actually i do not know your server . Perhaps, > would you do check here? > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Using-IMAP.html IIUC the server doesn't offer IMAP directly so one must use .forward, fdm(1), and dovecot(1) to create a virtual environment for the system mail that one can access with Gnus thru the common IMAP backend/interface ... But the mails don't end up in ~/Maildir :( PS. Check out above BTW, 8 levels of citation B) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal