need help setting up gnus

need help setting up gnus

[Davidcollins001]

Hi,

my university it services has just just made us all change from a
barely useable web mail system to the Microsoft outlook webmail - I
can't stand it!! I started setting up pine, but I don't really like
that too much either, I keep using emacs key bindings and getting in a
muddle. When I was setting up pine I noticed that emacs can read mail
too. :)

I have spent a couple of weeks looking through these groups and looking
through the manual and searching the internet to try to figure out how
to set it up. So far I have not been able to open my emails.

It looks like it should be straight forward.... I used the following to
try to access my mail through imap, then tried the 2nd to retrieve mail
from my gmail account (pop is setup in gmail) I have also tried similar
other things that haven't worked and I have deleted

(setq gnus-secondary-select-method
      '((nnimap ""
		(nnimap-address "myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk")
		(nnimap-server-port 993)
		(nnimap-stream ssl)
		)))


   (eval-after-load "mail-source" '(require 'pop3))
   (setq mail-sources
      '((pop :server "pop.googlemail.com"
	     :port 995
	     :user "davidcollins001"
	     :connection ssl
	     :leave t)))

Please can some one point me in the correct direction, I don't know
what I am doing wrong??
Thanks

Re: need help setting up gnus

[Davidcollins001]

I tried running gnus with M-x toggle-debug-on-error and got the
following message. From what I have seen I can't see if I have anything
wrong with my ~/.gnus file. Is there something that I might be missing?

Opening nnimap server...
imap: Connecting to myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect
%s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect
%s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -ssl2 -connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `nil'...failed
imap: Connecting to myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk...failed

My ~/.gnus file is:


(setq user-full-name "David Collins")
(setq user-mail-address "D.J.Collins@warwick.ac.uk")

;; imap
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnimap ""
                (nnimap-address "myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk")
		(nnimap-stream ssl)
		(nnimap-server-port 993)
		)))

;; sending mail
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail-relay.warwick.ac.uk")
(load-library "smtpmail")

Thanks

Re: need help setting up gnus

[martin]

  >>>>> Davidcollins001  <Davidcollins001@gmail.com> writes:
  > Date: 27 Nov 2006 08:26:50 -0800
  > 
  > I tried running gnus with M-x toggle-debug-on-error and got the
  > following message. From what I have seen I can't see if I have anything
  > wrong with my ~/.gnus file. Is there something that I might be missing?
  > 
  > Opening nnimap server...
  > imap: Connecting to myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk...
  > imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect
  > %s:%p'...
  > imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect
  > %s:%p'...
  > imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...
  > imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -ssl2 -connect %s:%p'...
  > imap: Opening SSL connection with `nil'...failed
  > imap: Connecting to myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk...failed
  > 
  > My ~/.gnus file is:
  > 
  > 
  > (setq user-full-name "David Collins")
  > (setq user-mail-address "D.J.Collins@warwick.ac.uk")
  > 
  > ;; imap
  > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
  >       '((nnimap ""
  >                 (nnimap-address "myimapmail.warwick.ac.uk")
  > 		(nnimap-stream ssl)
  > 		(nnimap-server-port 993)
  > 		)))
  > 
  > ;; sending mail
  > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
  > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
  > (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail-relay.warwick.ac.uk")
  > (load-library "smtpmail")
  > 
  > Thanks
  > 
  > 

Hi,

my method accessing imap mail folders (Starting from the **Group**
buffer, no SSL connection):

  gnus-group-enter-server-mode  <menu-bar> <Gnus> <Enter server buffer>, ^
    Command: Jump to the server buffer.

  gnus-server-add-server        <menu-bar> <Server> <Add...>, a
    Command: (not documented)

  gnus-server-read-server       <menu-bar> <Server> <Browse>, RET
    Command: Browse a server.

Subscribe to the folders like you do with news groups.

Cheers

Martin
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