Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> writes: >>Is there somewhere that the basic ideas of using nmh with Gmail are discu= >ssed? >>Thank you very much, as they say, in advance. > >Ralph has given you some of the basics, but at least as far as you are >concerned, Gmail will behave like pretty much any other email provider >(there are some fancy authentication options, but they are not required). > >The basics: You will retrieve messages from GMail via POP; you will send >messages to GMail via SMTP. The specific connection settings are here: > >https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828?hl=3Den > >You can either choose to have nmh directly retrieve the messages with >POP (using inc(1)) and send the messages via SMTP (using send/post) >directly to GMail, or have other tools do that for you. If you want to >use nmh directly, this is the appropriate place to ask about that. > >To translate the settings on that web page, look at the inc(1) and send(1) >man pages; you want the -host, -port, -user, -sasl options. When it comes >to TLS, there's a bit of confusion here on the termology. If you need >to negotiate TLS at the beginning of the connection, you want the >-initialtls option. This is sometimes called "SSL", which is even more >confusing. If you want to negotiate TLS after the connection has started, >you want the -tls option. This is sometimes called "STARTTLS" or just >"TLS". You also probably want to use the -snoop flag to help you debug >things. You can use the better authentication options that require the >use of mhlogin, but I think maybe right now that might be a little too >much to deal with. > >If you are using other tools to connect to GMail, well, I would just humbl= >y >point out that those are not nmh tools and this MIGHT not be the right >mailing list to ask about them. > >--Ken
I now fetch my mail using fetchmail. But I have no particular brief for fetchmail. I don't remember why I started using it more than 20 years ago. Probably because I didn't know any better. Norman Shapiro