bug#59587: 28.2; gnus does not retrieve emails sent from another device

[Waleed Yousef]

One more piece of clue: I installed outlook on my iphone to experiment with, as 
a replacement of “Mail app” of iphone. The same problem exist, i.e., when I 
send an email with outlook, gnus does not fetch it. 

> On Dec 1, 2022, at 9:16 AM, Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks again for your time,
> 
> I have four emails, three are pop3 and one is imap. I am using nnml. This is 
> my gnus.el part:
> 
> ```
> (setq mail-sources `(
>                         (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                :user "wyousef@fcih.net"
>                                :port 995
>                                :stream ssl)
>                         (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                :user "wyousef@aucegypt.edu"
>                                :port 995
>                                :stream ssl)
>                         (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                :user "wyousef@gwmail.gwu.edu"
>                                :port 995
>                                :stream ssl)
>                         (imap :server "mail.uvic.ca"
>                                 :user "wyousef@uvic.ca"
>                                 :port 993
>                                 :stream ssl
>                                )
>                         )
>      gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gnus.org")
>      gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
> 
>      user-mail-address "wyousef@fcih.net"
>      user-full-name "Waleed Yousef"
>      send-mail-function        'smtpmail-send-it
>      message-send-mail-function    'smtpmail-send-it
>      smtpmail-smtp-server        "smtp.gmail.com"
>      smtpmail-smtp-service             '587
> )
> ```
> 
> Another piece of information is that I am using spacemacs, which I do not 
> think it will make any difference as its maintainers confirmed to me that 
> they did not change anything with gnus
> 
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> 
>> Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Thanks so much for your reply. After I read your reply, I did several
>>> experiments and found that the problem does not happen (that is, Gnus
>>> pulls the sent messages) if I send from the webmail interface of a
>>> pop3 email, e.g., using chrome to send from my gmail account. In that
>>> case Gnus will pull the sent email. However, if the email is sent from
>>> my iphone (whether IMAP or pop3 account) or even from a webmail
>>> interface of an IMAP account, Gnus does not pull the sent email
>>> although the email is indeed saved in the sent box (I go online and
>>> check).
>> 
>> This still isn't enough information to help you. How is Gnus fetching
>> mail for this account? Is it an nnimap backend, or some other mail
>> backend using a mail source?