Hey, group, Because I really like emacs, I'm going to give gnus one more try. (I've spent a couple days reading docs, trying things, using Customize and none of this has been of any use. Well, actually, this is about the third time I've spent a couple days trying to configure gnus.) Emacs is great and I'd really like to get it working for email. Here's the functionality I'm looking for:
Most recently I've been using Mozilla mail to manage five email accounts. Four of them use the same remote mail server... let's call it "mail.abcmail.net". Of course they all have different userids and passwords and received email goes into separate folders according to the email-address to which it was sent. I use IMAP w/SSL (port 993) to read mail. Unless I specifically issue a command to delete and expunge an email, it stays on the server. Besides the INBOX folder, there are several others. I can also create folders there under INBOX with names according to my choosing. Again, all the email stays in all of these folders-- even a standard/default folder called Trash where "deleted" mail is placed-- unless I issue a command to erase them (a.k.a., "expunge"). If I receive an email that has been GPG-signed or -encrypted, clicking on a little icon will verify the signature and/or decrypt it as needed; if the relevant public key isn't already on my keyring, Mozilla will prompt me with a yes/no, then if "yes", silently download and install it and then verify|decrypt it without bothering the user at all. Very slick. Received email can be filtered and sorted in a variety of ways and marked, labeled, color-coded, printed, moved (to another account folder), saved (either to a local file or to a folder on the (remote) mailserver), and in other ways manipulated. If a received email contains a URI, it will be highlighted; clicking on it will open it in the Mozilla browser. If the URI is an email address, an email composer window is invoked. To send mail for these four accounts, the same remote mailserver (SMTP (port 25) with TLS) is used. There's a searchable addressbook available for directly inserting one or more email addresses into any one or more of the To, CC, BCC, and/or Reply-to fields. Typing a destination email address into any of these fields will initiate incremental autocompletion of the email address. A click of the mouse will GPG-sign or -encrypt the outgoing message with a private key corresponding to that email address. Depending upon the email account, a copy of the outgoing email is saved to a folder for that account on the remote mail server or to one or another local folder. The fifth email account is for reading email originating from the local machine, mostly diagnostics spewed out from this and that daemon or service. It doesn't require encryption, but uses the folders, filtering, labeling, printing, and other features. The few times I send an email from this account is mostly for testing or curiosity. Because I have other security measures protecting my account, I have Mozilla set up so that I don't have to enter a userid or password to either read or write email on any account. So that's what I'd like gnus to do. As said above, I tried M-x customize and that's far too cryptic to be of use to me. I've also consulted Info, the Emacs manual, the emacswiki, and several other webpages, all to no avail. I've done quite a bit of programming in my day, but hardly any in elisp and it seems like I need to be a rather proficient elisp programmer if I'm to configure gnus on my own. So I'm hoping for help from this list. Reference above to doing something with a click of a mouse is just to show the simplicity of invoking some action. I'm not a big fan of the mouse. I would prefer to hit a key over having to reach for the mouse. Progress thus far with gnus (highly abbreviated): I was able to get gnus to log into one account on the server doing authentication in plain text, but none of the mail there showed up. Inserting subsequent code into ~/.gnus and ~/.emacs somehow screwed even this little bit of success so that I couldn't even log in to the server. So I've wiped all the gnus-relevant code out of ~/.emacs and renamed ~/.gnus so it is no longer functional either. IOW, I'm back at the very beginning. Any tips anyone can provide will be on a "clean" configuration. Thanks for your help, ken -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. -- Bradford Angier _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs