Re: nnimap can not get Sent Mail in Gmail

[galen_boyer]

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?

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

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

-- 
Galen Boyer

--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---