new gnus setup with Dovecot

[Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>]

I am currently using mu4e for email, but I would like to try out Gnus
(while keeping my working mu4e setup in order to be able to actually do
email while trying out/setting up Gnus). mu4e uses offlineimap as a
backend with Maildir structure. So I was hoping to be able to maintain my
Maildir setup while trying out Gnus.

I setup dovecot by simply putting

mail_location = maildir:~/home/MYUSERNAME/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs

in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and starting the dovecot server.

In .gnus.el I put:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "localhost" (nnimap-stream
network))))

According to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9977182/how-to-integrate-dovecot-version-2-with-gnus-emacs
I should then be able to browse servers with ```^```, but when I do
this, I find:

     {nnfolder:archive} (closed)
     {nndraft:} (opened)
     {nnimap:localhost} (denied)
     {nntp:news} (denied)

I assume I want {nnimap:localhost}, but that appear inaccessible.

I also found somewhat different instructions at
http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html
, but as that info is over 5 years old, I wasn't sure if it was still current.

Does anyone have any further tips on how to get Gnus up and running with
a local Dovecot server (with mailsync handled with offlineimap)? And
should this be able co-exist alongside mu4e?

thanks,
  --Ben
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