[Ilugc] Help on gnus config

  • From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
  • Date: Tue Jul 11 14:28:43 2006

Senthil Kumaran S wrote:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gnus.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
(setq mail-sources '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
                         :user "stylesen@xxxxxxxxx"
                         :password "secret")))

gmail has pop3 + ssl (different port)

it has smtp auth + ssl (again you need to enable ssl + login / passwd 
credentials)

.gnus.el:
(eval-after-load "mail-source" '(require 'pop3)) ;; pop3 with ssl support

(setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
(setq pop3-debug t)

(setq user-full-name "Name")
(setq user-mail-address "mailname@xxxxxxxxx")

;;POP mail

(setq mail-sources
       '(;
         (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
              :port 995
              :user "mailname@xxxxxxxxx"
              :connection ssl
              :leave t)))

;; Sending mail
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil)))
(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 "mailname@xxxxxxxxx"
  nil)))
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)

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