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From: hsg@phy.duke.edu (Henry S. Greenside)
Subject: How to use imap with gnus, especially how to get current email
Date: 17 Aug 2004 00:16:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wly8kemmbj.fsf@bhaskara.phy.duke.edu> (raw)


Until recently, I was reading email with gnus (and
emacs) via pop, with the following entry in my .gnus
file,

   (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder "")))
   (setq nnmail-spool-file '(  
     (pop :server "mail.phy.duke.edu" :user "hsg")))

but my mailserver has now switched to imap and ssl for
better security.

So I am now trying to using imap as a real imap server
rather than in pop or rmail style where the mail is
downloaded to a local file and then deleted from the
mail server. I tried to do this with the following
entry:
   
   (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
         '((nnfolder "")(nnimap ""
   	  (nnimap-address "mail.phy.duke.edu")
   	  (nnimap-stream ssl)
   	  (nnimap-server-port 993)
   	  (nnimap-list-pattern ("~/Mail/*")))))

This worked (imap was able to detect my old mail groups
and connect to the mail.phy.duke.edu server) except
that I can't figure out from the gnus documentation or
from searching the web how to obtain my current email
from the imap server.

Is there a group that I have to subscribe to that
corresponds to my current email, e.g., by the name of
mbox or INBOX or something else? What do I have to do
to access my current email?

    Thanks,

    Henry



             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17  4:16 Henry S. Greenside [this message]
2004-08-17 22:53 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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