emacs 27.1 on debian bullseye (userland app [1]): the entire files (2) are given below:
~/.gnus (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "disroot.org")) (setq user-full-name "jindam, vani" user-mail-address "jindam.v...@disroot.org") (setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(plain))") (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 465) (setq mtpmail-stream-type 'tls) (setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(plain)) (nnimap "disroot.org" (nnimap-inbox "INBOX") (nnimap-split-methods default) (nnimap-expunge t) (nnimap-stream ssl)) (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo"))) (setq mail-sources ’((file :path "/var/spool/mail/jindam.v...@disroot.org") (imap :server "disroot.org" :user "jindam.v...@disroot.org" :port "993" :password "password"))) "~/.authinfo machine disroot.org login jindam.v...@disroot.org password password port 993 ~/.getmail/getmailrc mkdir -m 0700 ~/.getmail [retriever] type = IMAP server = disroot.org username = jindam.v...@disroot.org port = 993 password = password [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/.nnmaildir/ ~ M-x gnus gnus-read-init-file: Error in ~/.gnus: disroot.org Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable disroot\.org) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/jindam/.gnus" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 513 load-with-code-conversion("/home/jindam/.gnus" "/home/jindam/.gnus" nil t) load("~/.gnus" nil t) gnus-read-init-file() gnus-1(nil nil nil) gnus(nil) funcall-interactively(gnus nil) call-interactively(gnus record nil) command-execute(gnus record) execute-extended-command(nil "gnus" "gnus") funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "gnus" "gnus") call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command) (1) https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd (2) https://web.archive.org/web/20221122134120/https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2461819/raw/main/.gnus.authinfo.getmail/getmailrc ** questions: (1) is it mandatory to use getmail or fetchmail? (2) how do i resolve gnus init error? regards, jindam, vani toots: @jindam_v...@c.im others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani