Re: Question Regarding Config For Gnus With Fastmail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

"Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com> writes:

> Hey there,
>
> I wanted to do the deep dive to try out GNUS, but am encountering three weird 
> things:
> 1. It prompts me for the 'IMAP' user, which I then put in as 'sbanya' since 
> my email is 'sbanya@fastmail.com'.
>
> Its weird since its defaulting to 'sam'.
>
> 2. When it prompts for the 'IMAP password', it shows me
> 'sbanya@fastmail' before prompting for the password, even though it
> probably should be 'sbanya@fastmail.com'.
>
> 3. Also, after I enter in the correct password and hit enter, I get the 
> following message:
> nnimap (fastmail) open error: 'NO Incorrect username or password.'. Continue? 
> (y or n)
>
> Here's my config for GNUS within my Emacs config:
> ** Add Gnus for personal email
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (when (member (system-name) '("notestation" "fossastation"))
>     (setq
>      user-full-name "Samuel Banya"
>      user-mail-address "sbanya@fastmail.com"
>      send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.fastmail.com"
>      smtpmail-stream-type 'starttls
>      smtpmail-smtp-service 587
>      gnus-select-method
>      '(nnimap "fastmail"
>       (nnimap-address "imap.fastmail.com")
>       (nnimap-server-port 993)

I would definitely add a (nnimap-user "sbanya@fastmail.com") in here. I
don't know if it's supposed to draw the correct address from
`user-mail-address' or not, but obviously something's going wrong there,
and it's safer to specify it explicitly.

>       (nnimap-stream ssl)
>       (nnmail-expiry-wait immediate))))
> #+end_src
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam