Re: gmail and gnus

[Hadron]

Bill White <billw@mchsi.com> writes:

> On Sat Apr 28 2007 at 18:22, Bill White <minutiae@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and now 11 years later I still do most everything in or through
>> emacs (except this dang gmail stuff).
>
> Here we go - gnus ahoy.  I use gmail:
>
> - for their relatively infinite storage space (100 accounts * 2.7GB
>   each),
>
> - so I can easily read & show our kids all the graphics-heavy forwards
>   my Mom sends :-) (I don't want to futz with w3, w3m, etc.)

I use w3m and external browser for built in URLs.

>
> - for access anywhere.
>
> Unfortunately, gmail doesn't do IMAP:
> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10339 but there
> are some workarounds I'll look into (google "gmail imap" without the
> quotes).
>
> Cheers, and thanks to all for the kick in the pants to get back to
> gnus -

Why use IMAP? You can access using pop3. Works for me. You are probably
better off in gnu.emacs.gnus

>
> bw

Crosspost & Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus
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