Re: Setting up email with IMAP

[David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>]

Yevgeniy Makarov <emakarov@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a basic question. I want to have email via IMAP. I have the
> following in my ~/.gnu.el file:

~/.gnus (or ~/.gnus.el), yes?

> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>   '((nnimap "Work"
>             (nnimap-address "mail.cems.uvm.edu")
> 	    (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*"))
>             (nnimap-server-port 143))))

Do you specifically need to set nnimap-list-pattern?  It looks like its
default value of "*" will find all groups.  You can probably get away
without setting nnimap-server-port too.

> When I start Gnus, I am asked for the username and password, which are
> accepted. After that, I get the following list of groups:
(which doesn't include nnimap+Work groups)

> So where is my mail? [...] When I hit U in
> the groups buffer and then TAB toi show all possible groups, I see
> only real Usenet groups, like 0020.lang.scheme, a.a.mis.admin,
> a.a.mis.dedicated, a.a.mis.pittsburgh, etc, but no INBOX and no my
> username.

If you press "^" from the group buffer, the resulting server buffer
should include an {nnimap:Work} line, and if you press RET on that, you
should see a list of groups that you can individually subscribe to with
'u'.  "U" from the group buffer should probably work too, but as you've
described your configuration all of your mail groups will have names
like nnimap+Work:INBOX.

You also might want to add nnimap groups to gnus-auto-subscribed-groups,
on the off chance that you create new IMAP folders.

  --dzm