I had been trying to find a lightweight but powerful email client for a long time, and this became true yesterday.
gnus is a very complicated/powerful tool to read both news and emails, and also there are a lot of different ways to achieve the same goal. Mine is just one of them, but simple.
I assume you already have some basic understanding about emacs before continuing.
Here comes.
0. run command "gnus" to get gnus group buffer
1. Type "^" to enter gnus server mode
2. Type "a" to add a new virtual server
You will be asked for server method, just type "nnimap" for IMAP protocol
Then give a name for this server, whatever you like, for example "dummyimap"
3. Now a new server will be shown up in the server list. Type "e" to edit it like this
(nnimap "dummyimap"4. Press "Ctrl+C Ctrl+C" when finished.
(nnimap-stream ssl) ; enable this if you want to use ssl mode
(nnimap-address "dummyimap.com")
(nnimap-server-port 993))
5. Navigate to the new server, then press "Enter", it will start to connect to imap server.
6. Fortunately, you will the list of mail folders after authenticated.
This article is only about how to setup gnus with IMAP. If you want more information about how to use gnus, please refer to gnus manual.