Re: Setting up Dovecot [Was => Re: gnus fetching same mails again and again (pop)]

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com>]

Hello Jonas,

coroa@online.de (Jonas Hörsch) writes:

> On Mon, Apr 16 2012, Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> I couldn't get Dovecot working.
>>>
>>
>> - restarted dovecot
>>   ,----
>>   | raghava-note:/ $ sudo service dovecot restart
>>   | dovecot start/running, process 8639
>>   `----
>
> it should not be necessary: if you want to invoke it via nnimap-stream
> shell: it doesn't even have to be running. i don't have to start the
> dovecot server to use /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.f
>
That sounds reasonable.

>
[...]
>
>   (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>                '(nnimap "dovecot"
>                         (nnimap-stream shell)
>                         (nnir-search-engine imap)))
>
>   (setq imap-shell-program '("/usr/lib/dovecot/imap 2> /dev/null"))
>
>
> i don't need any additional authentification. no password, username,
> whatsoever.
>
> you might want to try what happens if you invoke /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> in any shell, for me this looks like:
>
> * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as coroa

I see similar.

,----
| * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as yagnesh
`----

>
>
> i'm using dovecot 2.1.4 on archlinux. i read that for some older
> versions you actually want to call it via

My dovecot version is 2.0.13.

At the end,
gnus *Server* buffer is telling me


  {nnimap:localimap} (denied)

with a warning

Warning: Opening nnimap server on localimap...failed: ; Unable to open server nnimap+localimap due to: Buffer  *nnimap localimap nil  *nntpd** has no process


How can I see why Emacs shell process is denied.?


Thanks.,
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