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Thursday, November 01, 2007

emacs_gnus_gmail_login
Originally uploaded by jwalsh

The following should allow access to the Gmail IMAP service using Gnus (tested against GNU Emacs 22.0.990.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-05-23 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)):


; Gmail
(setq gnus-select-method 
      '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com" 
               (nnimap-stream ssl) 
               (nnimap-server-port 993)
               (nnimap-expunge-on-close ask)))

This should then provide the following after subscribing to your inbox (U: nnimap+imap.gmail.com:INBOX):


[ Gnus -- 0 ]
       *: nnimap+imap.gmail.com:INBOX 
  [ misc -- 0 ]...

There were some initial problems establishing a connection through Gnus but the connection was confirmed with:


bash-3.2$ openssl s_client -tls1 -connect imap.gmail.com:993
depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=imap.gmail.com
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:1
depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=imap.gmail.com
verify error:num=27:certificate not trusted
verify return:1
depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=imap.gmail.com
verify error:num=21:unable to verify the first certificate
verify return:1
CONNECTED(00000003)
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=imap.gmail.com
   i:/C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/emailAddress=premium-server@thawte.com
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posted by j 11/01/2007 05:19:00 PM