Re: gnus and IMAP

[Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>]

me@vger.org writes:

> When i run imap from mail-sources it will not sync the
> imap folder, just get new once.

I don't quite understand the problem. Gnus does not
automatically retrieve (I assume this is what you mean
by `sync') new mail. If you press `g' in the *Group*
buffer, Gnus will get new mail and news items.

But you really should use nnimap.

> I will login and all but I cant subscribe to the inbox
> folder.

Why not? What is the error message you get when you try to
subscribe?

My settings for running IMAP against an Exchange server are:

(setq gnus-nntp-server nil)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "your.mailserver.here" (nnimap-stream ssl))))
(setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnimap\+your.mailserver.here:Deleted Items")
(setq gnus-message-archive-group "\"nnimap\+your.mailserver.here:Sent Items\"")

I don't think ssl comes with emacs, but you can find it in
the gnus/contrib directory.

> What I want to do is sync the imap folders onto
> gnus but still have it in "outlook".

Are you sure that this is what you want? I want to have all
my messages on the Exchange server and then read them with
either Gnus or Outlook (or any other software for that
matter).

Niklas