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Re: Gnus: IMAP and ESMTP


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Gnus: IMAP and ESMTP
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:19:25 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

thorsopia@lavabit.com writes:

> (mail-source . (imap :server "mail.example.com"
>                                        :port 993
>                                        :user "john"
>                                        :stream tls
>                                        :authentication ;; What
> should I specify?
>                                        :program ;; What should I specify?
>                                        :mailbox ;; What should I specify?
>                                        :dontexpunge nil))

Well, you probably shouldn't use IMAP as a mail source at all, because
that means that you'll be downloading all of the mail from the IMAP
server.

Instead you should use nnimap.

> How to configure ESMTP? There is a howto [4], but I don't understand
> it. Could you elaborate?

I think that howto is outdated.

In Emacs 24, you will be prompted for the SMTP setup the first time you
send email, so no configuration is necessary.

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