From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5717 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Nash Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: problems reading IMAP mail Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:42:07 +1000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671394 28580 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:36:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:43 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Approved: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1127353543 10932 199.232.76.165 (22 Sep 2005 01:45:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Envelope-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-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5859 Original-Lines: 37 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5859 Tue Jan 17 17:35:43 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5717 Archived-At: Thanks again for both follow-up responses. I have followed Reiner's suggestion about gnus, and the loading of the mail into Gnus is indeed smoother now. However, the mode line has "-ephemeral" appended to the name of the mail INBOX Group; and also when I issue a M-g (in the Gnus summary buffer) I still get an error "Ephemeral groups can't be reselected" -- so I don't know how to get new mail. In the mean time, I have tried to follow another line of suggestions from a local friend, and have taken http://gray.gnu.org.ua/software/emacs/rmail-1.el which is linked from in the middle of http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/mailutils.html, prompted by the comment "The improved rmail.el, taking advantage of all the features provided by our movemail should become available with the next version of GNU Emacs. In the meanwhile its code is available from Sergey Poznyakoff's site." I byte-compiled it and loaded it OK. I issue "ESC-0 g" and at the prompt "Get new mail from file: ~/ " I point it at imap://@ (cf. defun rmail-parse-url at line 193) And I presume I'll need to install at least movemeail from the GNU mail utilities (not that I know how to do this...) Matthias Buelow: > Hmm.. you cannot install some stuff in your home directory? Yes, I can -- but am wary of having to instal and maintain stuff I don't really understand. Anyway, if this enhancement to RMAIL can be got working I reckon it will be the best way out of my problem -- I can just keep using RMAIL as I was (and don't need to keep trying to make gnus work). David