Re: General advice - incorporating gmail IMAP

[Harry Putnam]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> Hi Harry,
>
>> Now I'd like to add gmail using its IMAP server.
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Connecting to an IMAP Server") ]
> | Connecting to an IMAP can be very easy.  Type `B' in the group buffer,
> | or (if your primary interest is reading email), say something like:
> | 
> |      (setq gnus-select-method
> |            '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com"))
> | 
> |    You'll be prompted for a user name and password.  If you grow tired
> | of that, then add the following to your `~/.authinfo' file:
> | 
> |      machine imap.gmail.com login <username> password <password> port imap
> | 
> |    That should basically be it for most users.
> `----

> Well, since you already have some servers, you probably want to add that
> to your `gnus-secondary-select-methods'.

With that done I get this error: something about listp nnimap being
the wrong type argument.  

>From Messages buffer:

  [...]
  Reading c:/users/harry/.newsrc.eld...
  Opening nnfolder server on archive...done
  gnus-find-new-newsgroups: Wrong type argument: listp, nnimap

When I set debug on error, and the debugger gives the error, windows 7
pops up a dialog asking me if I want to attach a debugger or not,
either way I answer, emacs closes before I can get at the backtrace.

I know there is some way to make emacs write the error to disk as it
happens but I don't now how to do it.

Anyway, this is the code in gnus:

    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap  "imap.gmail.com"))

But for the moment I can't post a backtrace.

So before getting into splitting I'll need some help just getting the
first steps.

If I just eval that line alone it shows:

 C-c C-e at the end of:
    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap  "imap.gmail.com"))
 shows:
   `(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")'