From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68467 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: dovecot: imap: Connecting to localhost...failed Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:17:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87ocuriyk4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <8763h0cm15.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240211922 2494 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2009 07:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dan Davison Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16902@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 20 09:20:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LvnnM-0003CZ-Ud for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LvnlA-0002ej-St; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:17:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lvnl6-0002eC-7J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lvnkz-0005eg-VT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LvnlP-0000g7-00 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:17:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7A6789B5D0; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23192-05-3; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:17:31 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (dhcp61.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.61]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBD9789B135; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: Dan Davison , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <8763h0cm15.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:32:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68467 Archived-At: Dan Davison writes: Hi Dan, > (setq gnus-select-method > '(nnimap "dc" (nnimap-address "localhost"))) That looks correct. Does it work, if you login using telnet? I assume no. > The only thing I'm changing in the dovecot config file is > mail_location. I've tried two values for that: > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs I think you cannot say ~, because that will look into the "mail" (or "imap"?) users $HOME only. To use the users home put a %u into the path. (I didn't test that. If it doesn't work, have a look at the docs. The example dovecot.conf tells you how to do it in the comments above mail_location.) HTH, Tassilo -- The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be.