IMAP support for Emacs and Gnus

What this is

A package for Emacs and Gnus used to connect to IMAP servers.

If you don't know what Emacs, Gnus and IMAP is, this is of no interest to you. For more information look at:

• Emacs homepage, or XEmacs homepage.
• Gnus homepage
• IMAP connection

Features

This is probably not a complete list.

• IMAP4 and IMAP4bis
• Mail splitting
• Disconnected support (experimental)
• Kerberos4, GSSAPI (kerberos 5) CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, SSL, STARTTLS
• Support for IMAP extensions: ACL, UIDPLUS, UNSELECT
• MIME (by pGnus)
• Mail expiring (by pGnus)
• Searching (by nnir)
• Bulletin board support

What's new

• 1999-10-23: nnimap 0.131 commited to PGnus cvs.
• 1999-10-20: 0.131 released
• 1999-09-12: 0.130 released
• 1999-08-21: 0.129 released
• 1999-08-14: A searchable mailing list index is available
• 1999-08-12: 0.128 released
• 1999-08-09: 0.127 released
• 1999-07-19: 0.126 released
• 1999-07-18: 0.125 released
• 1999-07-17: 0.124 released

What's old?

Mailing list

Mail the following to nnimap-request@extundo.com to subscribe to the mailing list. Send "help" to the same address for further instructions.

subscribe

There is a mailing list archive available.

Download it

This is a beta software.

This code was snatched from John's ftp directory and Jim's ftp directory and then patched by me. Credits to them, bug reports to the list.

• Latest version
• Older versions are available

It's also available via anonymous CVS from

:pserver:anonymous@robotics.caltech.edu:/home/radford/src/cvs

with password "nnimap". Thanks to Jim Radford for this server.

How to use it

There's a manual which should cover most things. The mailing list is there for what's not, and it's a good idea to subscribe to it if you're using nnimap.

Also be sure to check out the patch page if you need to patch your Gnus to get things going. Generelly the latest development Gnus include theese patches.

Before reporting bugs, have a look at the list of known problems with nnimap.