Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Drudgery, horror, delight
It took a long harrowing day of debugging and rewriting elisp code capped by an hour of invigorating "OH CRAP DID I JUST DELETE 1100 UNREAD EMAIL MESSAGES?!", but I'm finally done - my office gnus setup with its last 3 years of email messages now works perfectly from home, connected to Wolfram's imap and smtp servers via vpn. Jamie S at the office tracked down my missing messages - it turns out that if you tell gnus to tell an imap server to split messages from INBOX to "imap-split", a file ~/imap-split is created with all the messages in it. 'G f' ahoy!
Along the way I finally read and understood The Fine Manual - it is possible to use an imap server as a simple message-serving pop server.
After the day's total immersion in elisp I switched back to mathematica to fix up some code and felt a bit of confusion, like trying to speak a foreign language I hadn't used for months.
posted by Bill White at 07:19 | permalink | email me | | |
Mon, 28 Jul 2008
Getting gnus to send email
Problem when sending mail from cvs gnus/emacs in a fresh ubuntu 8.04 installation:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Sending failed; SMTP protocol error") signal(error ("Sending failed; SMTP protocol error")) error("Sending failed; SMTP protocol error") smtpmail-send-it() message-send-mail(nil) message-send-via-mail(nil) message-send(nil) message-send-and-exit(nil) call-interactively(message-send-and-exit nil nil)
sudo apt-get install starttls
posted by Bill White at 16:25 | permalink | email me | | |
Sun, 30 Dec 2007
Here be monsters
Grr. There are unfathomable deeps surrounding authentication with the Wolfram smtp server when connecting from outside their network. My email will stay on my office computer, accessed via emacs through ssh X forwarding. Back to Mathematica coding - I've had enough lisp for the night.
On the bright side, I'm now using my new squeaky-clean & organized .emacs and .gnus files that I came up with during all this. A general cleanup can violate Grohens' Law of Information Conservation if you're not careful. I tossed code only if I couldn't remember what it was for or the last time I used it. It's still hanging around in old files, though, in case I really need some of it.
posted by Bill White at 20:13 | permalink | email me | | |
