From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: [OT] Gnus mail tutorial? Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:19 -0600 Message-ID: <87bo7zsgoo.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20130525010056.0bb70583@aga-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8Cr-0003Nk-PD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 02:44:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8Cj-00053b-Le for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 02:43:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:54939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ug8Cj-00053Q-EV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 02:43:49 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 10so4914446pdi.3 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 23:43:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Fri, 24 May 2013 18:27:57 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode , Marcin Borkowski John Hendy writes: > On May 24, 2013 6:01 PM, "Marcin Borkowski" wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> sorry for an off-topic question, but I'm sure someone here will be >> able to help me with this: I'm thinking about using Emacs as my email >> client, and I'm considering using Gnus for that. The Gnus manual is a >> bit intimidating; is there any newbie-friendly tutorial which might help >> get me started, taking into account that I do /not/ want to use Gmail, >> but another (IMAP-aware) mail service? >> > > Seconded. I tried following the tutorials that *do* exist once and just > gave up. Something tried and known to work and be complete would be > awesome. and I know there's a lot of gnus users on the list :) > I know the OP explicitly does not want to use gmail, however this gmail solution is *very* concise and should be easily adapted to work with a non-gmail imap service. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc2 Just replace the gmail urls and ports with those of the service you want to use. Also, note that in blocks like the following (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "gmail" (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl))) in the 'nnimap "gmail"' portion the "gmail" is just a name, not something special, and it can be replaced with any arbitrary string. The starter-kit-gnus page of my starter kit may be helpful, however, it doesn't provide much new information beyond that available at the previous emacs wiki page. http://eschulte.github.io/emacs24-starter-kit/starter-kit-gnus.html https://raw.github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/master/starter-kit-gnus.org Hope this helps, > > John > >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Marcin Borkowski >> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski >> Adam Mickiewicz University >> -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte