Re: General advice - incorporating gmail IMAP

[Harry Putnam]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

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

Thanks, yes that worked.

I now have a new obstacle however.  

I'm not sure that I mentioned that this setup is on a windows 7
machine.

My mail desktop and where I do most mail etc is a gentoo linux
desktop, but I work a lot on windows machines too.  I thought I'd try
to get gmail working on a windows machine before I risk screwing up my
mail mail setup on linux.

So I'm hitting a problem having to do with starttls I think.

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| Let me insert here a few facts:
| 
|   Running emacs-24.X (of Feb 14)  on windows 7.
|   gnus of recent git checkout 
|   I'm attempting to get gmail working and use its imap server 
`----
The Messages buffer says this:

  Checking new news...
  Reading active file from imap.gmail.com via nnimap...
  Opening nnimap server on imap.gmail.com...
  Denied server nnimap+imap.gmail.com
  Opening nnimap server on imap.gmail.com...failed: 
  'gnutls-cli' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I have this line in .authinfo
machine imap.gmail.com login hputnam3@gmail.com password [xx] port 993 

I removed the port 993  in .authinfo, closed gnus/emacs, restarted
emacs/gnus and tried again... getting this:

  Checking new news...done Warning: Opening nnimap server on
  imap.gmail.com...failed: 'gnutls-cli' is not recognized as an
  internal or external command

  ; Denied server nnimap+imap.gmail.com; Opening nnimap server on
    imap.gmail.com...failed: 'gnutls-cli' is not recognized as an
    internal or external command

Anyone know what needs to be done for this?