{"id":49,"date":"2008-06-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knielsen-hq.org\/w\/?p=49"},"modified":"2021-09-01T06:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T06:53:32","slug":"using-gmail-from-gnus-on-ubuntu-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knielsen-hq.org\/w\/using-gmail-from-gnus-on-ubuntu-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Using GMail from Gnus on Ubuntu Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have used GNUS (Emacs news\/mail reader) to read mail for ages, so I wanted to use it to access my GMail account as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to get it to work on my Ubuntu Hardy installation, though not without some hacking (I did not spend that long looking for a cleaner way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GMail supports both POP and SMTP, so that is the basics for getting it to work, but the problem is that TLS\/SSL is required for both and getting that configured in Gnus was a bit tricky for me. But I got it working in the following way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin gnutls-doc starttls<\/code><\/li>
  2. The smtpmail.el<\/code> included in emacs21 does not handle TLS (and the gnus<\/code> package depends on emacs21, did not check if gnus is available for emacs22 in Ubuntu Hardy). But Gnus comes with another smtpmail.el<\/code> which does support TLS, so I copied that into my load path instead (\/usr\/share\/doc\/gnus\/contrib\/smtpmail.el.gz<\/code>).<\/li>
  3. I had to hack this small patch into smtpmail.el<\/code> to get it to use STARTTLS, not sure what the real problem is here:
        --- smtpmail.el 2008\/06\/06 18:12:50 1.1<\/code>
        +++ smtpmail.el 2008\/06\/06 18:13:15 1.2<\/code>
        @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@<\/code>
           (let ((cred (smtpmail-find-credentials<\/code>
                       smtpmail-starttls-credentials host port)))<\/code>
             (if (null (and cred (condition-case ()<\/code>
        -                       (with-no-warnings<\/code>
        +                       (progn<\/code>
                                      (require 'starttls)<\/code>
                                      (call-process (if starttls-use-gnutls<\/code>
                                                        starttls-gnutls-program<\/code><\/li>
  4. Configure pop and smtpmail in .emacs:
    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml \"\")))<\/code>\n
    (setq mail-sources<\/code>\n
          '( (pop :server \"pop.gmail.com\" :port 995 :user \"XXX@gmail.com\" :stream ssl)<\/code>\n
            ))<\/code>\n
    (setq nnmail-pop-password-required t)<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-smtp-server \"smtp.gmail.com\")<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-local-domain nil)<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials '((\"smtp.gmail.com\" 587 \"XXX@gmail.com\" nil)))<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '((\"smtp.gmail.com\" 587 nil nil)))<\/code>\n
    (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server \"smtp.gmail.com\")<\/code>\n
    (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)<\/code>\n
    (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)<\/code><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So a bit of a pain, but I got it to work (and I am really<\/em> used to Gnus by now and would hate to switch to something else).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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