Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Loris Bennett]

Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm still looking for a good way to use Gnus. I have a few email addresses, 
> and
> putting in all the server info is quite a bit of work compared to
> other,non-Emacs clients, like Gmail, Apple Mail, and even Outlook. They look 
> at
> the @domain, like @gmail.com, in the Email Address, and just get the server 
> info
> from that, and its good.
> I know that many probably use their own mail server, or do some mystical Emacs
> stuff to make it faster, but as a person who has come from the GUI all his 
> life,
> but also loves the simple genius of a UI and UX that Emacs offers, I'd love to
> have the option to streamline all this, kind of like the setup for ZSH, which 
> is
> just awesome.,
>
> Devin Prater
> Assistive Technology Instructor certified by World Services for the Blind
> JAWS certified

You can obviously do a lot of fancy stuff with Gnus, but to get going
something like the following should be enough:

  (require 'gnus)
  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
        (quote
         ((nnimap "gmx"
                  (nnimap-stream tls)
                  (nnimap-address "imap.gmx.com"))
          (nnimap "gmail"
                  (nnimap-stream ssl)
                  (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com"))
          )))

As you say, you have to find the appropriate values for 'nnimap-stream',
but you only have to do that once.

Having thus smugly claimed that setting up Gnus is easy, I must admit
that, before finally switching a few years ago, I had tried and failed
on a number of occasions, so YMMV.

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Cheers,

Loris

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