[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am looking for an IMAP mail client for emacs for one of my
> users. I have looked at gnus and mew so far. However, I can't get
> either of them to connect to the imap server. He also wants to be
> able to install the Win32 version of emacs on his Windows laptop and
> use emacs for mail there, as well, so that he can get rid of
> Outlook. Any thoughts?
I use Gnus with IMAP servers all the time (like, ummm, *right now*).
Here is some elisp that I hope will help get you started. I have a
friend who runs a similar setup to mind on win32 boxen -- it works for
him.
(autoload 'gnus "gnus" "Read network news." t)
(setq gnus-subject-lines-height 8)
(setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil)
(setq gnus-treat-emphasize nil)
(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers nil)
;;; From the GNUS manual:
;;;
;;; "If you have an extremely slow NNTP connection, you may consider
;;; turning article caching on. Each article will then be stored
;;; locally under your home directory. As you may surmise, this
;;; could potentially use huge amounts of disk space, as well as eat
;;; up all your inodes so fast it will make your head swim. In
;;; vodka."
;;;
;;; I don't like the cache, because, as Rob Pike says, there's no
;;; such thing as a simple cache bug...
(setq gnus-use-cache nil)
(setq gnus-user-login-name "fbloggs")
(setq gnus-user-full-name "Fred Blogs")
(setq gnus-your-domain "aol.com")
(setq gnus-local-domain "aol.com")
(setq gnus-your-organization "Department of Tautological Pleonisms and
Redundancies Department")
(setq gnus-local-organization "Department of Tautological Pleonisms and
Redundancies Department"))
(require 'nnimap)
;;; here we setup gnus to read from two imap servers, one secure and
;;; the other not
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'(
; no special configuration
(nnimap "vanilla-imap-servername")
; secure
(nnimap "secure-imap-server"
(nnimap-server-port 993)
(nnimap-address "secure-imap-servername")
(nnimap-stream ssl)
(nnimap-authenticator login))
))
% you can debug imap problems by looking into this buffer
(setq imap-log "*imap-log*")
;;; BBDB
(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize) ;;; 'gnus 'message 'sc 'w3
(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus)
(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives (remove "text/html"
mm-discouraged-alternatives))
(add-to-list 'mm-inline-media-tests '("text/html" nil (lambda (h) nil)))
(add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
(add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")
(add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/enriched")
(setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display)
mm-automatic-display (remove "text/richtext" mm-automatic-display)
mm-automatic-display (remove "text/enriched" mm-automatic-display))
Hope this helps,
--kevin
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