Re: gmail setup

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

dick.r.chiang:

> AL> Correction: more than 200 *unread* messages.
>
> The "How many articles" question is asked when accessing an inbox
> that has N unreads where N is either zero or a number greater than
> gnus-large-newsgroup.  People more than occasionally access their inbox
> when N is zero.
>

Strange use case you have there: I don't do that.  If I wanted to access
a group with zero unread messages, I would search (with nnnir, for
example) instead.  And, by the way, let's not forget the excellent
dianyou!  (https://github.com/redguardtoo/dianyou)

>
> AL> I have managed in the past to use gnus without writing any configuration
> AL> myself — just creating an nnimap server with "e" from the server window
> AL> and filling the parameters needed
>
> With respect, this is "over the heads" of most users.  The "*Server*"
> buffer somewhat "trickily" accessed via "^" is already a headscratcher (it was
> for me!) for people accustomed to mainstream mail clients.
>

It is in the manual, which is the supposedly is the primary source of
information, over those blog posts that can be not so exhaustive, or
even incomplete.

But my point was that setting an nnimap server usually is best done with
the less parameters the better.

>
> I admit that complaining does not advance Gnus's cause.  In my
>defense, I've
> published a talk-is-cheap-show-me-the-code primer to Gnus IMAP
> (https://github.com/dickmao/gnus-imap-walkthrough),

Thanks for that!  Looks interesting.

>but removing
> "A Practical Guide to Gnus" from its lofty throne atop Google's results is all
> but impossible at this point.
>

Well, you can also either change your email provider and/or your web
search engine.  Yes, I do have a gmail account, but nowadays is not my
primary address, and have almost nothing in there.  I moved to more
standard-caring hosts (almost anyone but google).

-- 
Alberto