Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP

[David Hume]

Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm seriously considering using emacs as my mail client and I should like to 
> give rmail a try.
>
> However, despite several google searches and having a look at the rmail
> website, I cannot find any tutorials for an rmail beginner.
>
> Does anybody know of an rmail tuturial that will:
>
> 1. get me set up with IMAP (specifically gmail)
> 2. auto-complete recipients using my google address book
> 3. typical use-cases (receiving mail, sorting mail, responding, etc)
>
> If so, I'd be really very pleased.
>
> Best regards,
> Sam

I have just followed these instructions:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc4

And got gmail and yahoo working with imap, at least for reading. I had
to set up application passwords for both as I have second factor
authentication.