John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > On May 24, 2013 6:01 PM, "Marcin Borkowski" <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> 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
