Re: Gnus and Gmail?

[Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> Out of interest, why not use nnimap? This way your [g,e]mail in gnus will
> properly sync with the server and thus across all machines "live" as you
> read them.
> 
> I used to use a fetchmail/pop3 solution but imo the nnnimap solution is
> far cleaner, easier, more efficient and robust if you use multiple
> clients/machines etc.

My experience with imap is that it works well, but it's a bit slow, and I can't
see my email unless I'm connected.  That may all be fixable, but I'm looking for
speed of getting set up, too.

> Regarding sending, have you installed exim and gnutls? If using debian
> for example you need to properly configure exim as an internet node
> using dpkg-reconfigure. More info? Try googling them and you'll find a
> wealth of similar experiences I daresay ;) I know I fell foul of the
> default exim setup recently when I installed a new laptop.

I thought of that, but I had another customize / .gnus conflict, I think.  I can
now send via smtp as describe on emacswiki.org.

> Your topics should be in your .newsrc.eld afaik.  I have the dribble
> turned off since I only use gnus as a mail client reading my Mail
> structures. see the variable gnus-use-dribble-file.

Thanks!  I discovered that, too.

Now I think I'm down to getting bbdb to be happy.  On Debian Lenny (and perhaps
on Ubuntu before that), the odd numbered times I started Emacs and Gnus, bbdb
would report args out of range and not display the bbdb buffer.  That made
sending email hard, but at least a restart would fix it.

Now on LMDE (based on Debian testing), it seems to fail on both even and odd
numbered invocations.  I never got an answer as to what might be going on nor
how to fix it.  If anyone has any clues, I'm all ears.

Bill