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Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS
From: |
Richard Riley |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:37:27 -0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 24 2010, Elena wrote:
>
>> On Nov 23, 4:18 pm, Jason Earl <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
>>> Here is a basic setup that will connect gnus to an IMAP server on port
>>> 993 via ssl. In short, if all you need is the sort of basic setup that
>>> you get from other mail clients this will suit you just fine.
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>> '((nnimap "mail"
>>> (nnimap-address "your.mail.server")
>>> (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>> (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>> (nnimap-authenticator login))))
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Thank you very much, Jason. However, my server is a POP one,
>> otherwise I guess Gnus would not have been dumb enough to start
>> downloading my mails and deleting them assuming I knew some bizantine
>> settings to avoid that beforehand. Thunderbird may be big and slow,
>> but at least it does not make such assumptions.
>>
>> For a text-based mail-client, I'm looking into Alpine now.
>
> It has been a long time since I have used a pop3 client, but when I used
> to support such beasts downloading the messages (and deleting them from
> the server) is precisely what they were *supposed* to do. I would not
> be surprised if most modern email clients still downloaded the messages
> and deleted them from the server when using pop3.
I've never had a POP3 client delete from the server when it reads.
Certainly using Gmail one of the first in your face options is whether
to retain a copy on the server.
It's a server side setting normally isn't it?
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, (continued)
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Eric S Fraga, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Sean McAfee, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Jason Earl, 2010/12/09
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, harven, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Jason Earl, 2010/12/09
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Jason Earl, 2010/12/09
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS,
Richard Riley <=
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Giorgos Keramidas, 2010/12/08
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Richard Riley, 2010/12/09
- Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Jason Earl, 2010/12/09
Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Francis Moreau, 2010/12/08
Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS, Elena, 2010/12/08