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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
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Andreas Politz |
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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:06:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> But gnus has been problemmatic for me. I have multiple email accounts
> which I access using imaps (running on different servers). Setting
> these all up and managing them is a snap with Thunderbird. On the other
> hand, I've spend *days* trying to get gnus to do the same and never did
> get them anything close to working. So I gave up. There's too many
> other things in my life to do. If there's ever clear and accurate
> enough documentation on doing this, I might attempt it again.
>
Agree, for one the manual is more like a references. Also, it frequently
introduces terms without explaining them properly (e.g. active group).
Until I understood most of it's concepts, gnus got totally confused (from me
killing groups, creating new groups with the same name, changing
methods will it was running,etc. ) and it appeared to be broken.
After I figured out the setup, I deleted everything gnus (News,
.newsrc.eld, .newsrc, .newsrc-dribble) and now it's working.
Actually you just have to setup a imap method (server) and subscribe to
a group (folder) on that server.
There appears to be no difference between primary and secondary
method, though I really don't know. This will ignore the primary
one.
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
Setup the imap servers. The list pattern is only necessary if the
server makes a lot of folders available you are not interested in,
e.g. a whole file-system.
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnimap "imap.host1.net"
(nnimap-list-pattern "Mail/*"))
(nnimap "imap.host2.net")))
Start gnus
(gnus)
Go to server buffer. Move point to one of the servers and go into
it. Press `u' on the folders you want to read. Quit server. Quit
server buffer. Update all groups
^ RET u q q g
This is with Gnus v5.13.
> (But then, how does gnus handle html-formatted emails with images (e.g.,
> photos)...? PDFs?)
I haven't gotten any HTML mail lately. Attachments are represented as
usual via link, by which they can be opened in different ways.
-ap
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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar, Jeff Clough, 2009/09/09
Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar, Jeff Clough, 2009/09/09
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