Re: nnimap can not get Sent Mail in Gmail

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:53:06 -0500 galen_boyer@yahoo.com wrote: 

gb> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:28:48 +0800 Plato Wu <gtalk000@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> 
PW> egallego@babel.ls.fi.upm.es (Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias) writes:
>>>> Plato Wu <gtalk000@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:26:25 +0800 Plato Wu <gtalk000@gmail.com> wrote: 
>>>>>> 
PW> I have configured Gnus to access Gmail by IMAP, It can get INBOX and
PW> other labels which are created by me. The important Sent Mail label
PW> can not be showed. 
>>>>>> 
PW> I don't know why, please help me, thank you in advance.
>>>> 
>>>> Could be a case of gnus-ignored-newsgroups?
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-ignored-newsgroups RET ]
>>>> | gnus-ignored-newsgroups is a variable defined in `gnus-start.el'.
>>>> | Its value is 
>>>> | "^to\\.\\|^[0-9.         ]+\\( \\|$\\)\\|^[\"][]\"['()]"
>>>> | 
>>>> | Documentation:
>>>> | *A regexp to match uninteresting newsgroups in the active file.
>>>> | Any lines in the active file matching this regular expression are
>>>> | removed from the newsgroup list before anything else is done to it,
>>>> | thus making them effectively non-existent.
>>>> | 
>>>> | You can customize this variable.
>>>> | 
>>>> | [back]
>>>> `----
PW> Definitely! Thank you very much!
>> 
PW> they all have a "[Gmail]" prefix which is matched with 
gnus-ignored-newsgroups.
>> 
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail says it but it's easy to miss
>> it.  Could you update with your setup and experience?

gb> The setting from the wiki page for gnus-ignored-newsgroups exposed the
gb> [Gmail] prefixed folders, such as sent mail.

gb> The wiki page worked for all my needs of accessing my gmail server
gb> account, well, I'll see about starttls in the gnutls.  Still downloading
gb> the executable for windows.

Excellent.  I plan to eventually write an assistant for setting up GMail
which will incorporate this fix to gnus-ignored-newsgroups, so your
comments were helpful.

Ted