From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13912 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: a few questions about the initial setup of gnus Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:50:38 +0000 Organization: virginmedia.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273155018 21713 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 14:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 14:10:18 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 16:10:17 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA1mK-00043b-C6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 16:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OA1mJ-0006eH-Ko for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 10:10:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone01.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe04.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100121 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.17.0.107 Original-X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com Original-X-Trace: newsfe04.ams2 1267843791 82.17.0.107 (Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:49:51 UTC) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:49:51 UTC Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84088 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 May 2010 21:07:02 -0400 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:13912 Archived-At: 1. what do I need to add to .emacs to send email from my gmail account. At the moment, if I try to send something, it shouws my username and my hostname in the From: field (instead of username and gmail.com I've got my ~/.authinfo in place that's the relevant bit of my .emacs (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.virginmedia.com")) (setq gnus-secondary-select-method '(nnimap "gmail" (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl))) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil)) smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 "myusername@gmail.com" nil)) smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" smtpmail-smtp-service 587 smtpmail-local-domain "yourcompany.com") 2. How can I subscribe to particular groups? 3. Can I remove the line about local-domain? thank you very much in advance -- regards Martin