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=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18306 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2022 08:58:23 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Apr 2022 08:58:23 -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 1ncNy9-00HYyB-E9 for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:21 -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 1ncNy8-006zKC-Ig for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:20 -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 1ncNy7-006zK6-JT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:19 -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 1ncNy3-0043Qp-7N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:19 -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=5W4SEZwQ8pKq9q03DbFaD46v07UmL3f2K57j99UiAGU=; b=Su/32ISk7xDG4Uh5Qv5LTmPnTb z3zfpSR5oRZBB07o/AGZ7WPLyOeigEFhNZHJtsONIZ1CgfcZlHTH4H2nV927LlSsKPH3xagm8jk3g bK1uhRuXerCdR2lxY2R27nOyLCNCsbjE3731u8Y/Chsc9sMHZncs/bdSofntf34jr/no=; 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 1ncNxw-0006q6-Ba for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:58:10 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ncNxv-0007HP-AV for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:58:07 +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: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:58:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0c1xobr.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87fsmp1yk9.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735ipqnrw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> 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:dWoXBIZ6YAkX/3SyrK28t4x94ao= Mail-Copies-To: never List-ID: Precedence: bulk Uwe Brauer wrote: >> Anyone knows to setup Gnus to work with a remote system >> mailserver? I've heard it is IMAP and you are supposed to >> do accomplish this with something called Dovecot. > > Right, I used it for years, but I gave it up when my > University switched, to, guess, GMAIL. > > At least 3 years ago, dovecot was not only slow with GMAIL, > but it also tried re download already downloaded messages. > > So I use gnus nnimap backend right now (academic > institutions, fortunately do not use oauth2, for the moment, > and I hope it stays that way). Works reasonable well, > sometimes I have to kill the process, but other than that it > is ok How do you use it? This isn't Gmail but the mail server on the remote system. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal