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From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Gnus-v5.9.0 fails with courier-imap-2.0.0: Error in command
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:43:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wudk5enc.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864r0ob2hl.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> (Chris Shenton's message of "11 Aug 2003 12:09:10 -0400")

Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> I've set up courier-imap and done telnet conversations to it to verify
> login.  I haven't used Gnus IMAP before but now have in gnus.el:
>
>   (setq
>    gnus-secondary-select-methods '(
>                                    (nnml "") 
>                                    (nnimap "pectopah.shenton.org"
>                                            (nnimap-stream ssl))
>                                    )
>    mail-sources '((imap	:server		"pectopah.shenton.org"
>                         :fetchflag	"\\Seen")
>                   ...
>   )
>
>
> (I don't understand the difference between the secondary-select-method
> and the mail-sources above, nor in the *Info* descriptions; clues?)

mail-sources makes Gnus download all messages from the server to the
local machine (that runs Gnus)

secondary-select-method lets Gnus keep the messages on the server
(offline capable when used with the Agent, Gnus v5.10 preferred).

> Any suggestions or clues? Thanks.

Is there something that prevents you from updating Gnus?

-- 
Matthias Andree



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-11 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-11 16:09 Chris Shenton
2003-08-11 16:43 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2003-08-11 17:14   ` Chris Shenton
2003-08-11 17:19     ` Matthias Andree
     [not found]   ` <yccisp3ex4i.fsf@orff.wc.cray.com>
2003-08-11 22:12     ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-11 22:20       ` Ted Stern
2003-08-12 11:59 ` Simon Josefsson

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