Gnus: IMAP and ESMTP

[thor...@lavabit.com]

Hi,

I have two machines: a server with a static IP address and a client
with a dynamic IP address. Postfix is running on the server. I used
these guides to configure Postfix: [1,2].

I want to read and send emails from the client.

I've been told that I should use POP or IMAP to get emails and SMTP to
push replies back to the server.

Here is what I'm going to use for IMAP. (I used this [3] guide.)
Is it OK? Could you comment on the unspecified options?

(mail-source . (imap :server "mail.example.com"
:port 993
:user "john"
:stream tls
:authentication ;; What should I specify?
:program ;; What should I specify?
:mailbox ;; What should I specify?
:dontexpunge nil))

How to configure ESMTP? There is a howto [4], but I don't understand
it. Could you elaborate?

Is it possible not to store sent emails on the server?

What else should be placed in .gnus.el to use IMAP and ESMTP?

How to check that my connections are encrypted?

Thanks

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixBasicSetupHowto
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
[3] http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_179.html#SEC179
[4] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmtpAuth

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

thor...@lavabit.com writes:

> (mail-source . (imap :server "mail.example.com"
> :port 993
> :user "john"
> :stream tls
> :authentication ;; What
> should I specify?
> :program ;; What should I specify?
> :mailbox ;; What should I specify?
> :dontexpunge nil))

Well, you probably shouldn't use IMAP as a mail source at all, because
that means that you'll be downloading all of the mail from the IMAP
server.

Instead you should use nnimap.

> How to configure ESMTP? There is a howto [4], but I don't understand
> it. Could you elaborate?

I think that howto is outdated.

In Emacs 24, you will be prompted for the SMTP setup the first time you
send email, so no configuration is necessary.

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