Re: Why I can't use gnus...

[Hadron Quark]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> "Mathias Gehrung" <matzematiker@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> ... as my favourite mailreader. I enjoy using gnus as newsreader, and
>> so I thought it would be fine using it for mail too. So I spent some
>> days trying to get it to work with the several email-accounts I'm
>> using. While IMAP's working fine, I experienced several problems using
>> pop and smtp. Especially when using ssl or non-standard-ports
>> (i.e. gmail smtp). So I did some searching the web and this
>> newsgroup. Since I don't want to get together all needed files from
>> several sources and different versions, I couldn't get things to
>> work. Trying gnus from CVS helped a little, but still some things
>> didn't work. So I ended up not using gnus for my email-thingy. So if
>> anybody has still some tipps (the easy way) how to get gnus to work
>> with pop and smtp using ssl I'd be delighted to hear them. 
>
> I am the same with smtp send in gnus : nowhere can I find a working
> example of how to get smtp-send-mail working with gmails smtp
> servers. It might mean giving up on gnus alltogether since my owm
> dynamic IP is in a banned IP range meaning certain mail hosts will not
> accept mails sent by my machine.

I got it working : in ubuntu I got the emacs snapshot, changed the
"emacs" link in /usr/bin to point to emacs-snapshot-gtk.

And set up like this:

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~terjeros/wiki/GnusGmail