* i am running debian 11 (bullseye) [1] on userland [2] ;; what is v [2.0] to minimise errors only .emacs code is provided you will receive error without creating "new, cur, tmp" directories when you run getmail. error: (path: maildir subdirectory "~/.Maildir/INBOX/cur" does not exist)
;; please remember this is bare or minimum setup, nothing fancy v 1.0 — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2022-12/msg00013.html ;; prerequisites: * emacs [3] an email client * getmail6 [4] to rerieve emails * msmtp [5] to send emails * defaultencrypt [6] to encrypted emails * gnupg/gpg [7] to create gnupg/gpg key for encryption or decryption ;; you must * provide password of your disroot email id and disroot email id and password when you retrieve emails and send emails * update to and from email address when composing email * replace 46BB3F32 with your gnupg/gpg encryption key id in .emacs file * create backup of important emails * create directories for storing downloaded emails and getmailrc (see: directories) ;; you cannot * send encrypted email if there is no gnupg/gpg key available for recipient * view or read encrypted emails if you forgot your gnupg/gpg key password * if you permentately delete emails in gnus, you cannot recover emails from email provider ;; how to install prerequisites on debian [8] and its derivatives [9] ;; security is first priority, i included ;; sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade * $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install emacs-lucid or $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install emacs-gtk * $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install getmail6 * $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install msmtp * $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install gnupg ;; directories (create) * getmailrc $ mkdir -m 0700 ~/.getmail [10] ; note —after creating above directory, move getmailrc into this directory * .Maildir, INBOX, new, cur, tmp to store downloaded emails $ mkdir ~/.Maildir $ mkdir ~/.Maildir/INBOX/ $ mkdir ~/.Maildir/INBOX/{new,cur,tmp} * replace email id with your disroot email id in .getmailrc ;; how to auto create .msmtprc [11] $ msmtp --configure yourm...@example.com * note —replace yourm...@example.com with your disroot email id..... ;; replace in .msmtprc * name with your name and email id with your disroot email id ;; how to retrieve or download emails using getmail6 $ getmail * note —provide your email password ;; .emacs (setq make-backup-files nil) (setq create-lockfiles nil) (setq auto-save-default nil) (setq frame-title-format "%b") (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(debug-on-error t) '(display-battery-mode nil) '(initial-buffer-choice "~/") '(send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) '(smtpmail-smtp-server "disroot.org") '(smtpmail-smtp-service 25)) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(default ((t (:family "fixed" :foundry "misc" :slant normal :weight normal :height 231 :width normal))))) (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/jl-encrypt") (require 'jl-encrypt) (require 'epa-file) (setq epa-file-encrypt-to "46BB3F32") *** .getmailrc [options] delete = True read_all = true [retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = disroot.org username = email id [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/.Maildir/INBOX/ ** .msmtprc account email id host disroot.org port 587 tls on tls_starttls on auth on user name from email id ** defaultencrypt installation: ;; download jl-encrypt.el from defaultencrypt repo [12] ;; create jl-encrypt directory in .emacs.d $ mkdir ~/.emacs.d/jl-encrypt ;; copy downloaded jl-encrypt.el into jl-encrypt directory ;; specify directory location of jl-encrypt in .emacs (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/jl-encrypt") ;; add jl-encrypt in .emacs (require 'jl-encrypt) ** .gnus (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmaildir "" (directory "~/.Maildir/") (get-new-mail t) (directory-files nnheader-directory-files-safe))) (setq read-mail-command 'gnus) (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "disroot.org" :user "email id"))) (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "disroot.org") (setq smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl) (setq smtpmail-servers-requiring-authorization ".*") (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 465) (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("disroot.org" 465 nil nil))) ** external links: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Debian_11_(Bullseye) [2] https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msmtp [6] https://gitlab.com/lechten/defaultencrypt [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Debian-based [10] https://getmail6.org/configuration.html#configuring [11] https://marlam.de/msmtp/msmtprc.txt [12] https://gitlab.com/lechten/defaultencrypt/-/raw/master/jl-encrypt.el?inline=false regards, jindam, vani Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) toots: @jindam_v...@c.im others: https://w.wiki/67VT
