Re: Can gnus deal with e-mail?

[mobile Parmenides]

The messages from an entire session are as follows:

Reading active file from news.cn99.com via nntp...
Reading active file from gmail via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on gmail...
imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3
-connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl2
-connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect %s:%p'...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `nil'...failed
imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...failed
Opening nnimap server on gmail...failed
First time user; subscribing you to default groups
Reading active file from news.cn99.com via nntp...done
Reading active file from gmail via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on gmail...
Denied server
Opening nnimap server on gmail...failed
`A k' to list killed groups
Checking new news...
Opening nndoc server on gnus-help...done
Checking new news...done
Setting up drafts group


2009/3/8 mobile Parmenides <mobile.parmenides@gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> I find an article concerning the settings of gnus which support gmail.
> Its URL is as follows:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail
>
> Following its instruction, I wrote a ~/.gnus file as follows:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.cn99.com"))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "gmail"
>                                  (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
>                                  (nnimap-server-port 993)
>                                  (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>      smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
>      smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587
> "mobile.parmenides@gmail.com" nil))
>      smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
>      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
>      smtpmail-smtp-service 587
>      smtpmail-local-domain "")
>
> and wrote the ~/.authinfo properly.The news reader' part woked well,
> but when contacting gmail server, there is a error message as follow:
>
> "Unable to contact server gmail, nil"
>
> Anyone have some experience to configure gmail under gnu?
>
>
> 2009/3/8 mobile Parmenides <mobile.parmenides@gmail.com>:
>> According to manual, gnus is designed to read news messages. Can I use
>> it to send and receive e-mail? My e-mail is at gmail.com. So, is gnus
>> able to work in IMAP style?
>>
>> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>>
>