Re: IMAP newbie, not getting any messages

[Kai Grossjohann]

bigfaceworm@hotmail.com (bigfaceworm) writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote in message 
> news:<87d658qb4d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>...
>> This is the point of nnimap -- it is for managing and using nnimap
>> groups, not nnmail groups.
>
> Right.  Only my Exchange server has a pretty tight limit on the size
> of the mailboxes, so I (think I) would like to archive things in my
> Unix mailboxes.
>
> But I see your point.

One approach would be to use the expiry-target feature to move
expired messages to other groups.  That might give you the best of
both worlds: you manage new messages on the server, in multiple
groups, but after a while the messages are copied to archive groups
on your local host.

>> > Is this possible?  I'd rather not have 2X my groups (one set nnmail and 
>> > one 
>> > set nnimap).
>> 
>> It is not possible with nnimap, but you can use mail-sources to get
>> what you want:
>> 
>> (setq mail-sources '((imap :server "your.host" ...)))
>
> Ahhh... didn't know about mail-sources.
>
> My Gnus *info* pages are all screwed up.  The build/install of Gnus
> never seems to be able to generate them properly, so looking up docs
> is kind of hit and miss.  It's much easier using *info* than Google.  ;-)

I'm surprised.  I never had problems with the info files for Gnus.

But I run Gnus in-place: I say "./configure" and "make", but not
"make install".  Then I add the gnus/texi subdir to $INFOPATH, and
Bob's my uncle.

Kai