Starter Kit Gnus POP

This file can be used to jump start a working Gnus instillation. The following steps will result in a working vanilla Gnus POP instillation.

  1. install the required-packages
  2. follow the gmail specific instructions
  3. tangle this file with `org-babel-tangle' (with C-c M-b t) creating the starter-kit-gnus-pop.el file which can be loaded by Emacs

(if you run into any problems – the gnus manual is very thorough)

Basic configuration

First off, load up gnus 

(require 'gnus)

Tell gnus that your mainly going to be using it for email not as a news reader – after all it's not longer the late 80s. 

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))

Required packages

A starttls client allows encrypted communication with remote pop3 and IMAP email clients.

openssl implements the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) secure communication protocol.

On Debian systems (including Ubuntu) instillation of starttls and openssl client is as simple as 

sudo apt-get install starttls openssl

Gmail Setup

For more information on configuring Gnus with Gmail see GnusGmail on the Emacs Wiki.

For a simple pop3 setup, simply replace your-gmail-email-address and your-gmail-password with your gmail account information in the following tables.

emailyour-gmail-email-address
passwordyour-gmail-password
 
(let ((email (second (first config)))
      (passwd (second (second config))))
  ;; The following adds Gmail as a source of mail for Gnus
  (add-to-list 'mail-sources
               `(pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
                     :port 995
                     :user ,email
                     :password ,passwd
                     :stream ssl))
  ;; The following is used for sending email through gmail using SMTP.
  (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
        smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 25 nil nil))
        smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
        smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
        smtpmail-smtp-service 25
        user-mail-address email
        smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
        smtpmail-auth-credentials `(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 ,email ,passwd))
        smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
        smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
        smtpmail-smtp-service 587))