Why is nnimap expire not \Deleted?

2008-03-02 Thread Joel Reicher
Sorry if this has already been discussed, but it seems to me that the gnus model of expiring mail messages is exactly the same as the IMAP model of delete and then expunge, so I don't see why one is not straightforwardly mapped to the other. What I'm thinking is that the expiry mark should be the

Re: Why is nnimap expire not \Deleted?

2008-03-02 Thread Joel Reicher
Joel Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry if this has already been discussed, but it seems to me that the > gnus model of expiring mail messages is exactly the same as the IMAP > model of delete and then expunge, so I don't see why one is not > straightforwardly

Re: Disconnected from IMAP?

2008-03-06 Thread Joel Reicher
Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When using Gnus, it seems that for some reason, after a period of time I > am disconnected from my IMAP server The server you are connecting to might be automatically logging you out after a certain period of idle time. > Now, when it tries to reconnect (o

Re: Disconnected from IMAP?

2008-03-08 Thread Joel Reicher
Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Now, when it tries to reconnect (on a STARTTLS connection), it > >> says that it can't connec

Re: TLS and browse foreign server

2008-03-17 Thread Joel Reicher
Thomas Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I hit B in the group buffer og get to browse a foreign server. I > then type nnimap RET server RET, which lets me browse my IMAP service. > > Is there any way during this process I can convince Gnus to connect > via TLS? I know I can set it

Re: TLS and browse foreign server

2008-03-24 Thread Joel Reicher
Thomas Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thomas Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> When I hit B in the group buffer og get to browse a foreign server. I > >> then ty

Re: Deleting drafts

2008-03-27 Thread Joel Reicher
Evans Winner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't figure out how to delete old drafts, so the drafts > groups doesn't always come up with articles in it. Is there > a way to do that? It works much (perhaps even exactly) like a mail group, so you can delete the articles with B Cheers,

Re: IMAP and Exchange 2007

2008-03-30 Thread Joel Reicher
Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I have found the postings that indicate that nnimap won't work with > Exchange 2007 and that it's Microsoft's fault. Great. But is there > anything I can do? Transfer the mail somewhere else; either to your home directory or to a proper IMAP server

Re: Unable to Subscribe to d...@gnus.org

2024-06-30 Thread Joel Reicher
Adam Sjøgren writes: You can, by the way, read and send to the ding mailing list using the group gmane.emacs.gnus.general on news.gmane.io via nntp, as a workaround/substitute. I tried posting to that group and that doesn't appear to work either. It's quite strange. Thanks and regards,

Re: gmail and gnus

2007-04-29 Thread Joel Reicher
Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun Apr 29 2007 at 17:24, Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why use IMAP? You can access using pop3. Works for me. > > I'm sure no expert but unless I'm missing something, POP3 won't modify my > gmail repository to reflect changes I would make l

Re: gmail and gnus

2007-04-30 Thread Joel Reicher
Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun Apr 29 2007 at 21:19, Joel Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You might be better off finding alternative storage. Note that an > > IMAP server does not need to be a mail server. > > Hmm... this sounds in

Re: indentation help

2007-05-02 Thread Joel Reicher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I need to add a line to my .emacs file for java code so that I can > indent concatenated long Strings as follows: You should ask your question in gnu.emacs.help. This newsgroup, gnu.emacs.gnus, is specifically for the Gnus mail/news reader written for the emacs platfor

Re: Basic gnus stuff

2007-05-08 Thread Joel Reicher
Fredrik Tolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, how is one _supposed_ to find existing groups to which > one can subscribe? I managed to, but I cannot imagine that it's > supposed to be right. I had to set the `gnus-read-active-file' to `t' > (rather than `some') to get gnus to fetch the

Re: nnimap troubles

2007-05-16 Thread Joel Reicher
Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted about one of my nnimap problems a few days ago. There haven't > been any responses so far, and searching online I found an old post > about the same problem, also with no responses. So I guess no one else > is crazy enough to try to split alt

Re: Gnus: always seeing old articles when entering an imap folder

2007-06-06 Thread Joel Reicher
Ferran Jorba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As much as I try to avoid it, I'm always typing `/ o' in my imap folders > in Gnus. Moreover, when I check for new messages in my inbox, my Gnus > talks to our imap server twice: one for `Esc g' and the other for `/ o'. > And as my inbox is quite big, I

Re: nntp read: 14535k

2007-06-20 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you know what's going on?... when from fencepost.gnu.org > attempting to read newsgroups with gnus doesn't work. > It reports > nntp read: 14535k > then > nntp read: 16839k > then > nntp read: 17748k > and that number increasing apparently not ending, not

Re: How do you select a server?... for gnus

2007-06-20 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Asking this question is difficult because it's not clear what isn't > clear! Anyway, from fencepost.gnu.org attempting to run gnus didn't > work. It might have something to do with the server. How do you select > a server? At this point there's no .newsrc file.

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

2007-06-20 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regrettably, what servers would be best to use from fencepost.gnu.org > and what to insert in the expression > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.somewhere.edu")) > isn't clear. Any newsserver you have access to will work, assuming outgoing nntp connections

Re: ? How would you set up gnus from fencepost.gnu.org

2007-06-20 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would you set up gnus from fencepost.gnu.org ?... It's not clear > what server or servers to try. It's not clear from the wording of the > text in the manual how to set up a server. You need to ask elsewhere to get names of newsservers, I think. Your probl

Re: How do you select a server?... for gnus

2007-06-20 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's no .gnus file in my directory. Perhaps it's called .gnus.el instead? There was a name change, I think, but I'm not sure why. Anyway, as I can see from other posts you seem to have realised you need the line (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.somew

Re: What free news servers are good?... from fencepost.gnu.org

2007-06-22 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Specifically, what are the best free news servers to try?... from > fencepost.gnu.org This isn't a Gnus question; you'll need to ask elsewhere. - Joel ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu

Re: nntp read: 14535k

2007-06-23 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 22, 11:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote: > > Gernot Hassenpflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 4. Search for Eric Raymond's article on how to ask smart questions. > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > How To

Re: What other forums might be tried?... for learning about free news servers besides http://groups.google.com/group/alt.free.newsservers/

2007-06-26 Thread Joel Reicher
thesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where around the web are there any > similarly formulated writings?... on > . how to fix bugs effectively http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging > . how to process bug reports > . how to address bug reports > . how to update bug reports submitted > . how to t

Re: auto backup files (ending with ~) stopped working. Why?

2007-06-27 Thread Joel Reicher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was happily editing some text files using emacs when I suddenly > noticed that it does not automatically create the famous ~ backup > files for them. > > I swear that I did not touch .emacs anytime recently. Yet, the sudden > disappearance of this useful feature occ

Re: Error posting in newsgroup

2007-07-03 Thread Joel Reicher
Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gnus 5.10.8, Fedora 4, Sendmail 8.13.7-2.fc4.2 > > I am just getting this strange error when posting to a newsgroup: > > sending ... Failed to No recipient address found in header; > > The cursor points to the From: address, which is my address. I'v