Gnus: Error on setting up IMAP accounts

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

I have trouble setting up Gnus (mail- + newsreader) on GNU Emacs 23.3 (on Mac 
OS X 10.7.2) correctly. Here is what I did so far:

1) installed Gnus 5.10.10 (in ~/email)

2) ~/.emacs:

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/email/lisp") load-path))
   (require 'gnus-load)

(require 'info)
(if (featurep 'xemacs)
    (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/email/texi/")
  (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/email/texi/"))

3) ~/.gnus.el:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org")); Question 1: what can I put 
here if I don't want *any* news?
(setq user-mail-address "my.name@dep.uni.edu")
(setq user-full-name "My Name")

;; setup IMAP accounts
(setq 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
   '((nnimap "my.name@dep.uni.edu"; primary email account
             (nnimap-address "mail.uni.edu"); mail server address
             (nnimap-server-port 993); port
             (nnimap-authenticator login); authentication method
             (nnir-search-engine imap); enable searching mails
             (nnimap-stream ssl); use ssl
             (nnimap-logout-timeout 1.0); if a connection to an IMAP server 
can't be closed, force close after 1s
     )
     (nnimap "my.name@googlemail.com"; secondary email account
             (nnimap-address "imap.googlemail.com"); mail server address
             (nnimap-server-port 993); port
             (nnimap-authenticator login); authentication method
             (nnir-search-engine imap); enable searching mails
             (nnimap-stream ssl); use ssl
             (nnimap-logout-timeout 1.0); if a connection to an IMAP server 
can't be closed, force close after 1s
             ))
)

4) ~/.authinfo
machine mail.uni.edu login mylogin port 993
machine imap.googlemail.com login my.name@googlemail.com port 993


When starting Gnus via M-x gnus, I obtain:
"byte-code: Error in ~/.gnus: symbolp"
=> Question: What is wrong?


Cheers,

Marius


PS: As references, I used:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial#toc1
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail
http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html#SEC208