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IMAP is a protocol used for accessing mail stored on a remote server.

IMAP, the Internet Message Access Protocol, is used by mailers such as Gnus and Wanderlust to access mail stored on a remote server. Most mail providers provide IMAP access.

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How to prevent mu4e from checking mail when the internet is down?

Q: how do I prevent mu4e from automatically checking mail when the internet's down? Problem I use mu4e and offlineimap to handle my email. When on a laptop, I have to deal with the fact that I sometimes have spotty wifi connections. offlineimap…
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GMail 2-factor auth without application-specific password

Is there any way I can read mail with emacs that comes from a gmail account protected with compulsory 2-factor auth? Application-specific passwords are disabled for GMail by my employer. So I can't use the usual workaround of setting an…
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How can I (automatically) check for new mail in Wanderlust?

Wanderlust doesn't update the number of new/unread/total mails in the "Folder" view. I have configured it to use my dovecot imap server and I didn't find any way to configure an update interval or even a keybinding or a function to update this…
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GNUS - mark all articles in the thread as Unread

I was searching through docs at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/ but could not find the proper key sequence for this. What is the key sequence for this?
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setting up Gnus 5.13 with OfflineIMAP and Dovecot

I am trying to set up Gnus 5.13 to access a local maildir (created by OfflineIMAP) via Dovecot. I know I could access OfflineIMAP's maildir directly, but as far as I know, this causes problems with syncing Gnus' flags. So I set up OfflineIMAP (it…
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How can I use Gnus to access Gmail IMAP through http(s) firefwall?

My company's firewall only allow http and https connections. To access internet, I have to specify the proxy before connecting the internet: export http_proxy=http://my-company.com export https_proxy=http://my-company.com That's the current…
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how to make "old" articles behave as "new" in gnus?

I am using gnus to read mailing lists from an imap account. For some reason some (really) new messages are marked by Gnus as ancient, i.e. with O, they appear in the summary buffer together with the rest of the new messages when I enter a group…
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How do I import email in Wanderlust?

I am setting up Wanderlust, and have an older "Maildir" folder created by Offlineimap. Am wondering how I can import these emails in Wanderlust and/or combine this folder with my new WL folder? Can I just move the files in each subdir?
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How to check for new messages on thread before sending with gnus' message-mode?

I use gnus for email, including its built-in message-mode for composing/replying to email. Just before sending mail, I'd like to query my IMAP server to see if there have been any new messages on this thread since I started composing. It looks…
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GNUS says sending email failed, but mail was sent [Unable to open server nnimap]

I have tried solve this for many many hours ;( macOS 11.1, Emacs 27.1 (brew), Gnus 5.13, msmtp 1.8.14 (brew) I use GNUS to read maildir that is synced using mbsync. I can read mail using GNUS but sending gives me Warning: Opening nnimap server on…
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gnus: fetch mails over IMAP from Outlook mail server

I'm trying to enable gnus to work with Outlook server (https://outlook.office.com/owa). At first I tried to re-use my old configuration for gmail (which worked fine for several years), but it didn't work in Outlook case. Then I googled a lot, and it…
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org-mode links to gnus articles with imap

When using gnus with nnimap (IMAP access to a remote mail server) and linking gnus articles (e-mail messages) in org-mode files. What are the pros and cons of gnus storage methods (for articles) in regard of having reliable access to articles,…
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emacs gnus and macOS mail.app

I have a very large MAILv5 folder on macOS with 11 IMAP mail accounts over 1 TB of data so I don't want to re-download all but instead I want to use Gnus or other Emacs mail client to read mail without losing apple-ecosystem advantages like…
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gnus: doesn't delete articles over IMAP

As Gnus documentation suggests, pressing B in the Summary Plugged mode deletes an email. So Gnus doesn't display them, but they're still visible in Web-based gmail client. Please note that I did set Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update…
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make gnus to place inbound emails per folders

I have a gmail account, and have set up gnus to read my email over IMAP. I'm also subscribed to a few mailing lists, and want them to be placed in individual directories, e.g. ml-openstack, ml-dpdk etc. so that when I open gnus, I have them not in…
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