Re: struggling with gnus imap

[Richard Riley]

Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm (still) trying to get gnus to let me use IMAP to read my email on
> our university server.
>
> I have this in .gnus:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>       '(
>       (nnml "") 
>       (nnimap "mail.mun.ca" (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX")))
>       ))
>
> When I try to subscribe using U in the *Group* buffer I get this:
>
> gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn't activate group mail.mun.ca: 411 No
> such group mail.mun.ca
>
> I also tried subscribing to INBOX, with the same result.  Can someone
> tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger

My imap connection is like so:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mymail"
                      (nnimap-stream ssl)
                      (nnimap-address "imap.server.net")
                      (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
                      (nnir-search-engine imap)               
                      )

Then you query a list of IMAP groups and subscribe as you do to usenet ones.

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