From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80215 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Imap, gmail and gnus Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:59:46 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87zkhc1cxo.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318039258 25799 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 02:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 02:00:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28509@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 08 04:00:47 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCMDT-00041E-MP for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:00:44 +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 1RCMD1-0004PB-It; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:00:15 -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 1RCMD0-0004P0-2W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCMCp-0007Nj-Ge for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCMCm-0000mG-3E for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCMCl-0003tH-Fi for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:59:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:59:59 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:59:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HPN7KZ6nj5eBsBMGPVWhqQj7pgk= X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80215 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > [Running nogus from 3 days ago, on debian linux] > > The emacs wiki at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail > > Has a bit about how to access gmail accounts by imap. > > It shows 3 basic parts to setting up Imap with gmail. > > 1) enable imap at gmail account (done) > > 2) set up .authinfo: > machine imap.gmail.com login MYGMAILUSER@gmail.com password XXXX port 993 > (of course I've used my real email address and passwords) > > 3) Chose one of the methods for gnus > I choose `secondary select' so put this in gnus: > > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "gmail" > (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com") > (nnimap-server-port 993) > (nnimap-stream ssl))) > > Those 3 things are setup as shown. Is this still up to date and is > this really all it takes? > > Should I see something happen with imap when I restart gnus? > > I've completed the above items, restarted gnus but see none of my > gmail stuff. Where can I look for clews. I tried nntp-log, and gnus > trace buffers but see nothing to do with imap there. > > If I open the Messages buffer so I can watch it, and then rescan one > of the imap groups it shows `Quit' right away/ > > What am I missing or not doing. Assuming the select is corect, did you subscribe to your imap groups? hit ^ at the group buffer and you'll see what to do there in conjunction with the manual.