Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes:
Hi Harry,
> Now I'd like to add gmail using its IMAP server.
,----[ (info "(gnus)Connecting to an IMAP Server") ]
| Connecting to an IMAP can be very easy. Type `B' in the group buffer,
| or (if your primary interest is reading email), say something like:
|
| (setq gnus-select-method
| '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com"))
|
| You'll be prompted for a user name and password. If you grow tired
| of that, then add the following to your `~/.authinfo' file:
|
| machine imap.gmail.com login <username> password <password> port imap
|
| That should basically be it for most users.
`----
Well, since you already have some servers, you probably want to add that
to your `gnus-secondary-select-methods'.
> My aim is a bit more than just receiving mail that way. I hope to be
> able to subscribe to various google groups by mail and end up with
> something sort of similar to nntp access to those groups.
I do exactly that using my fastmail account. Therefore, I do
server-side SIEVE message splitting using the List-Id header, so that
all messages of a mailing list go into one special group. That works
totally great! :-)
Now the sad news: Gmail doesn't support any advanced splitting. It has
some web-gui for some simple splitting according to to and from headers,
but only a very limited subset of SIEVE.
And now again good news: Gnus can split imap locally, and the local mail
splitting is propagated back to the server. However, I never used that,
so I have to refer to the docs:
,----[ (info "(gnus)Client-Side IMAP Splitting") ]
| Many people prefer to do the sorting/splitting of mail into their mail
| boxes on the IMAP server. That way they don't have to download the
| mail they're not all that interested in.
|
| If you do want to do client-side mail splitting, then the following
| variables are relevant:
|
| `nnimap-inbox'
| This is the IMAP mail box that will be scanned for new mail.
|
| `nnimap-split-methods'
| Uses the same syntax as `nnmail-split-methods' (*note Splitting
| Mail::), except the symbol `default', which means that it should
| use the value of the `nnmail-split-methods' variable.
|
| `nnimap-split-fancy'
| Uses the same syntax as `nnmail-split-fancy'.
|
| `nnimap-unsplittable-articles'
| List of flag symbols to ignore when doing splitting. That is,
| articles that have these flags won't be considered when splitting.
| The default is `(%Deleted %Seen)'.
|
|
| Here's a complete example `nnimap' backend with a client-side
| "fancy" splitting method:
|
| (nnimap "imap.example.com"
| (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
| (nnimap-split-methods
| (| ("MailScanner-SpamCheck" "spam" "spam.detected")
| (to "[email protected]" "foo")
| "undecided")))
`----
> gmail IMAP needs some particular kind of access and authentication all
> described in googles documentation.
Nah, not really. Since you seem to be using a very current Gnus
version, Gmail should work out of the box. (At least, it does for me.)
Bye,
Tassilo
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