Re: Two problems with gnus

[Tang Yan]

I have solved my problem, so I think I'd better post a message.

It is very easy, just upgrading from 5.9.0 --> 5.10.6 .

And I can read the body of my mails, ;-)

But I think it is terrible for newbies like me and I think gnus'
documents are poor.

For newbies:
DON'T USE _Gnus 5.9.0_ or you will have big troubles.

Thank you very much!


Simon Josefsson wrote:
> "Tang  Yan" <tang.yan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 64 UID SEARCH UID 81
> > * SEARCH
> > 64 OK UID SEARCH completed
> > 65 UID FETCH 81 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS
(Subject
> >>From Date Message-Id References In-Reply-To Xref)])
>
> The server appear to be broken, if UID 81 exists, a search for 'UID
> SEARCH UID 81' should return 81.  Do you know which server this is?
>
> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.bar.org"
> > (nnimap-server-port 143)
> > (nnimap-authenticator login)
> > (nnimap-stream network)
> > (nnimap-authinfo-file (expand-file-name
> > "~/.authinfo"))
> > ))
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> > And in "~/.authinfo" I wrote:
> > ---------------------------------
> > machine imap.bar.org login foo password !@#%$
> > ---------------------------------
> > But when I start gnus I get an error: "error stringp nil..."
> > OK, so I guess somewrong with the new line I added
> > (nnimap-authinfo...),
> > so I rewrote it like this:
> > (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
> > Well, this time it works, but why?
>
> Because you are quoting the expression, not evaluating it.  Try:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method `(nnimap "imap.bar.org"
>                                 (nnimap-server-port 143)
>                                 (nnimap-authenticator login)
>                                 (nnimap-stream network)
>                                 (nnimap-authinfo-file ,(expand-file-name
>                                                         "~/.authinfo"))))
>
> But I believe it would be more reliable to use the value you use now.
> Nnimap invoke expand-file-name on the file name internally.
>
> > What's the worse, I still have to input the user&password pair.
> > Then I read almost all the manual of gnus but no explanation.
> > At last I found a trick in google: add "port 143" in .authinfo
file:
> > -----------------------------------
> > machine imap.bar.org login foo password !@#%$ port 143
> > -------------------------------------
> > And this time, I don't need to input the pair. But all the examples
in
> > manual just say machine, login, password.
>
> The manual has been fixed, there are now examples for nnimap too:
>
> `nnimap-authinfo-file'
>      A file containing credentials used to log in on servers.  The
>      format is (almost) the same as the `ftp' `~/.netrc' file.  See
the
>      variable `nntp-authinfo-file' for exact syntax; also see *Note
>      NNTP::.  An example of an .authinfo line for an IMAP server, is:
>
>           machine students.uio.no login larsi password geheimnis port
imap
>
>      Note that it should be `port imap', or `port 143', if you use a
>      `nnimap-stream' of `tls' or `ssl', even if the actual port
number
>      used is port 993 for secured imap.