How to use imap with gnus, especially how to get current email

How to use imap with gnus, especially how to get current email

[Henry S. Greenside]

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

Re: How to use imap with gnus, especially how to get current email

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

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hsg@phy.duke.edu (Henry S. Greenside) writes:

> [snip]

> 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?

By "current email," do you really mean old email?  Are you able to see
new messages (ones that arrived after the switch to imap)?  The old
messages may likely have been deleted from the server.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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