From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7625 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: For the complete novice without knowledge of code how to deal with the code for setting up mail in gnus Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:21:49 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <7abf1$44a859f0$49fa2da$22944@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: <5i4py4jdwg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151887228 19238 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2006 00:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 02:40:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxCU6-0008B4-CO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxCU5-0000zQ-R8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Trace: 7abf144a859f0a13a077f22944 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77809 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7625 Archived-At: "Don Saklad" wrote in message news:5i4py4jdwg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org... > For the complete novice without good knowledge of code, how can > setting up mail in gnus be explained? > > There's got to be an easier way of explaining what some think to > be unexplainable. So you don't know lisp, here's another > explanation you can try... See if this works... Okay, and that > explanation is... > > Would there be any how to set up mail in gnus for the complete > novice that doesn't require knowledge of code?... or that could > make it even more clear than what we get at > http://www.google.com/search?q=gnus+email Either add the following to your .emacs or evaluate it with C-x C-e, C-j or whatever is appropriate in the buffer's context: (setq user-full-name "your name") ;; an arbitrary string works here (setq user-mail-address user@yourisp.com) ;; replace with your isp assigned user name @ isp name (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail.yourisp.com") ;; if this doesn't work get the correct string from another mail program (i.e. Outlook) (setq smtpmail-local-domain nil) (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (load-library "smtpmail") (setenv "MAILHOST" "mail.isp.com") ;; or whatever: see above (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("user@yourisp.com") rmail-pop-password-required t) (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.isp.com")) ;; or get string from a mail program known to work. This might not belong in .emacs but in .gnus or something (load-library "message") (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) Then try M-x gnus. Something should work. If there is a gnus wizard following this thread, I have a question too: How can I use one email address for mail and one for news, using gnus for both? Ed.