Re: Help with Gmail

[Jude DaShiell]

If norm didn't purchase the dad.org domain he'll probably be getting a
gmail.com domain for his new address.

On Sun, 1 Dec 2019, address@hidden wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 12:27:48
> From: address@hidden
> To: Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Dave Gates <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Help with Gmail
>
> Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >Hi Norm,
> >
> >> So I have to switch to Gmail and therefore have to fetch messages from
> >> Gmail to nmh (that is, the maildrop) and send messages to Gmail from
> >> nmh.
> >
> >Are you still sticking with the dad.org domain name when sending your
> >emails, or will you be gaining a new ...@gmail.com email address?
>
> I don't know. Maybe Dave, who set up the account for me knows.
>
> >How do you currently fetch messages so they reach nmh?
> >For example, inc(1) has POP3 support, or some use a non-nmh program like
> >fetchmail(1).  If we know what you currently use then we can try and
> >minimise the changes.
>
> I periodically call fetchmail with:
>
>   fetchmail  --limit $maxSize --limitflush --silent --timeout $timeout -f 
> $file 2>&1
>
> where:
>
> my $timeout=300;
> my $maxSize=5000000;
> file=/root/.fetchmailrc
>
> and the contents of /root/.fetchmailrc are:
>
>      set logfile = /tmp/fetchmail.log
>
>      poll imap.rawbw.com with protocol IMAP
>      user "soft" with pass PASSWORD is "norm" here
>
>      #mda "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem"
>      smtphost localhost
>
> where PASSWORD is a string that I don't think I should include in an Email to
> a wide audience. It was given to me, a couple decades ago, by my Internet
> provider.
>
> >> Is there somewhere that the basic ideas of using nmh with Gmail are
> >> discussed?
> >
> >Well, until those that know better arrive, there's mhlogin(1) that's all
> >about gaining the credentials that allow nmh to access Gmail when
> >running send(1).  And send's man page briefly mentions Gmail as an aside
> >when explaining another feature.  But I think getting from those to a
> >working system will need more assistance from this list.
> >
> >What's the output of ???inc -version??? as some features you may need are
> >only in later versions of nmh.
>
>      inc -- nmh-1.7.1 built 2018-03-17 14:13:11 +0000 on nad.dad.org
>
>     Norman Shapiro
>
>

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