Re: .gnus init file

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 01 2015,btraven  wrote:

> I have both .emacs and .gnus in ~\ (w32 24.4) and am manually
> transfering gnus stuff from .emacs to .gnus
> Is there a way to have options > customize write to a
> custom-set-variables paragraph in .gnus instead of in .emacs or does all
> the gnus stuff set through customize have to stay in .emacs
>
> Also is this the right place to ask about using openssl, gnutls, and
> other non-Emacs apps needed to make gnus a mail reader as well as a news
> reader?
>
> I have all of this in \emacs\gnutls: 
>
> cacert.pem	      libgnutls-28.dll		openssl.exe
> certtool.exe	      libgnutls-openssl-27.dll	psktool.exe
> danetool.exe	      libhogweed-2-5.dll	ReadMe.txt
> gnutls-cli-debug.exe  libiconv-2.dll		regex2.dll
> gnutls-cli.exe	      libintl-8.dll		srptool.exe
> gnutls-serv.exe       libnettle-4-7.dll		ssleay32.dll
> HashInfo.txt	      libtasn1-6.dll		zlib1.dll
> libeay32.dll	      ocsptool.exe
> libgmp-10.dll	      OpenSSL\ License.txt
>
> and ssl.el in \emacs\site-lisp but the ssl.el may not be current (from
> 1999).
>
> In the emacswiki I read:

I just set up Emacs +gnus+gmail mail send/receive on my win 7 laptop.
And this might not be what you were looking for but here goes anyway.

1.  Download the ezwinports bin files from sourceforge.  Just take all
of them, doesn't matter.  Look for w32-bin files I believe

2.  Put them in c:/gnu/ezwinports or c:/Emacs/ezwinports. err...unzip
them of course.

3. look at your C-h v dynamic-library-alist

Value: ((xpm "libxpm.dll" "xpm4.dll" "libXpm-nox4.dll")
 (png "libpng16.dll" "libpng16-16.dll")
 (tiff "libtiff-5.dll" "libtiff3.dll" "libtiff.dll")
 (jpeg "libjpeg-9.dll")
 (gif "libgif-7.dll")
 (svg "librsvg-2-2.dll")
 (gdk-pixbuf "libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll")
 (glib "libglib-2.0-0.dll")
 (gobject "libgobject-2.0-0.dll")
 (gnutls "libgnutls-28.dll" "libgnutls-26.dll")
 (libxml2 "libxml2-2.dll" "libxml2.dll")
 (zlib "zlib1.dll" "libz-1.dll"))

These dlls should be there in unzipped directory.

4.  Make sure that ezwinports dir is in the PATH in the "MY Computer"
settings. Adding the path in Emacs doesn't work.  And it has to be
there BEFORE the cygwin path.  which is important.

5.  I have this settings for my .gnus

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq mail-sources
      '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
             :port 995
             :user "xxxxxxx@gmail.com"
             :password "xxxxx"
             :stream ssl)))
;;if retrieving from spool, delete temp file after 1 days
(setq mail-source-delete-incoming 1)
(setq mail-source-delete-old-incoming-confirm nil)
(eval-after-load "mail-source" '(require 'pop3))
;;
(setq smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl)
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service 465)
(setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems set to t if needed
(setq smtpmail-debug-verb t)
;; ;;so that sent-mail folders see "To" headers instead of from
(setq gnus-extra-headers
      '(To ))
(setq gnus-verbose 7)
(setq gnus-verbose-backends 7)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I don't think I used anything other than stock gnus .el files or
anything outside of the the ezwinports.  In fact, I used msmtp before
but since the ezwinports binaries, it's fully native Emacs.

6.  You'd need an .authinfo file in ~/ directory

c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming

or somewhere

7. You may want to see this thread for more info

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-01/msg00328.html


8. If this works, gnus would render html and images too.

 sivaram
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