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[Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Reitter writes:

> I tried to add an IMAP account, but it wasn't obvious how to do
> that.  Every other mail client I've seen has a preferences menu item
> with an "account" tab.  I tried M-x customize-group `vm', which gave
> me something that looked like Imap accounts, so I entered one of
> each and saved.  Unfortunately, this had no effect whatsoever (even
> after restarting vm), because I used the wrong format.  No error
> message was given.  I found details on the Wiki and used the right
> format (I believe), but now my Emacs hangs. "Checking for new mail
> for XXX", whereas XXX is a non-user level file name with a partial
> hash code (useless info to me).

> I found a bunch of *trace of ... * buffers.  This is all they show:
> 
> starting IMAP session Mon Aug 23 23:54:39 2010
> connecting to imap.gmail.com:993
> connected

David, I think this trace suggests that you didn't actually get
connected, despite the appearances.  The first line should say "IMAP
over SSL" for gmail.  You get that by using "imap-ssl:" at the
beginning of the mailbox instead of "imap:".

People also say that stunnel version 4 is required for gmail.  I have
version 4.29 on Cygwin, which never gave me any problems.

Please check that the appropriate stunnel program is on the exec-path
and set vm-stunnel-program to its name.

I am going to be offline for a few weeks.  But, Alley and the rest of
VM team can probably help you with any other issues that might arise.

Cheers,
Uday