Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP

[James Freer]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, David Hume wrote:

> Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm seriously considering using emacs as my mail client and I should like to 
> > give rmail a try.
> >
> > However, despite several google searches and having a look at the rmail
> > website, I cannot find any tutorials for an rmail beginner.
> >
> > Does anybody know of an rmail tuturial that will:
> >
> > 1. get me set up with IMAP (specifically gmail)
> > 2. auto-complete recipients using my google address book
> > 3. typical use-cases (receiving mail, sorting mail, responding, etc)
> >
> > If so, I'd be really very pleased.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sam
>
> I have just followed these instructions:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc4


You managed to get yahoo working with imap. I've been trying to do that without 
success.

> And got gmail and yahoo working with imap, at least for reading. I had
> to set up application passwords for both as I have second factor
> authentication.

What imap and smtp codes did you use? From what I can gather yahoo has imap 
codes for reading mail on mobile phone apps but not PC email.

james