From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3778 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Randy Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: reading mail in gnus.. Date: 07 May 2004 13:51:57 -0400 Organization: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669784 20248 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:44 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!ltu.se!luth.se!193.180.251.40.MISMATCH!erinews.ericsson.se!news.ericsson.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: us057845@usrts005.corpusers.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sealfwa.sonyericsson.net Original-X-Trace: newstree.wise.edt.ericsson.se 1083952209 13119 172.17.98.17 (7 May 2004 17:50:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ericsson.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:50:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3919 Original-Lines: 36 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3919 Tue Jan 17 17:32:44 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3778 Archived-At: Sriram Swaminathan writes: > I am new to gnus. I am using gnus only to read news now. How to configure gnus to read mail? Hi Sriram, The following is the section of my init.el which configures gnus, including a pop3 email interface. I hope this helps you get started. --Randy ;; gnus stuff (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "my.newsserver.net")) (setq user-mail-address "MyName@myaddress.org") (setq user-full-name "My Name") (setq gnus-posting-styles '((".*" (name "My Name") (organization "My Organization") (signature-file "c:/mysig.txt") )) ) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-default-smtp-server "my.smtpserver.net") (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "my.popserver.net" :user "myusername" :password "mypassword"))) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) (setq gnus-message-archive-group "sent") (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups ".*mail.misc") (setq mm-default-directory "c:/temp/") -- Randy Yates Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Research Triangle Park, NC, USA randy.yates@sonyericsson.com, 919-472-1124