From: Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus email. -For dummies type information.
Date: 26 Mar 2002 20:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vgbjjf13.fsf@mailto.t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu1ye7xi2h.fsf@extundo.com>
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
Simon> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>> Here is a start:
>>
>> ;; Replace XX with the name of your news server.
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "XX"))
>>
>> ;; IMAP users can use the following. Replace II with name of your server.
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> '(nnimap "" (nnimap-address "II")))
>>
>> ;; POP users use the following. Replace XX, YY, ZZ as appropriate.
>> (add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "XX" :user "YY" :password "ZZ"))
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
>>
>> People who use IMAP might also wish to put the following line in their
>> ~/.authinfo files:
>>
>> machine XX login YY password ZZ
>>
>> Replace XX with the IMAP server name, same as II above. YY and ZZ
>> are login and password, respectively.
>>
>> This far, it's easy. But what to do for more complicated things?
Simon> For complicated things, people should be able to do things
Simon> themselves. But providing a sample .gnus is perhaps a good
Simon> idea altough quite un-emacsishy in style. Should Gnus
XEmacs could even add a menu item under Help->Samples.
How about something like
View Sample gnus.el
along the lines of ...
("%_Samples"
["View Sample %_init.el" view-sample-init-el
:active (locate-data-file "sample.init.el")]
in menubar-items.el?
Simon> install your suggested .gnus if the user doesn't have it
Simon> (and unless the user disabled this behaviour, I don't have
Simon> or want a .gnus for instance)? Everything could be
Simon> commented out.
--
Adrian Aichner
mailto:adrian@xemacs.org
http://www.xemacs.org/
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[not found] <y44wuw49np1.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
[not found] ` <vafn0wvwb5k.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
[not found] ` <yqrofhb1bdm.fsf@cs.york.ac.uk>
2002-03-26 17:53 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <ilu1ye7xi2h.fsf@extundo.com>
2002-03-26 19:38 ` Adrian Aichner [this message]
2002-03-26 20:45 ` Simon Josefsson
[not found] ` <vafit7ii961.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-03-27 13:11 ` Kester Clegg
2002-03-27 18:23 ` Simon Josefsson
[not found] ` <m3eli5ed4s.fsf@idefix.gallien>
2002-04-02 10:41 ` Kester Clegg
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