Re: gmail from gnus

[Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Simias <fvzvnf.a@tznvy.pbz> writes:

> rahed <raherh@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> This is probably the problem.  I use starttls:
>>>>>
>>>>> starttls (starttls) 0.10
>>>>> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>>
>>>>> and it works for me.  Maybe someone that uses GnuTLS can help you?
>>
>> I'm not able to build starttls on windows with MinGW.
>>
>> starttls.c complains it cannot find headers (sys/socket.h, sys/ioctl.h,
>> netdb.h netinet/in.h) and also throws errors.
>>
>> I should probably ask somewhere else. It appears gnus and gmail don't
>> fit together.
>>
>> Thank you for help.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this could help, but i'm reading my gmail's account mail
> using gnus, but not directly: i use fetchmail to download the inbox from
> pop.google to my /var/mail/user and then simply read it with gnus. When
> i send a mail, i just put my gmail address in the "From" field, and
> emacs sends it with mail, so it looks to the receiver i mailed whith my
> gmail account.
> I'm sure this technique has some limitations, but at least it works fine
> for me, and seemed way easier (at least at the time i did it) than
> configuring emacs for gmail.

The limitations are that people with dynamic IP are often blacklisted
because their IP came from a bad "pool" which has been misused in the
past. I use gmail to send my email since its a trusted smarthost.