Re: Gnus ignoring ~/.authinfo for gmail

David Arroyo <david.a.arroyo <at> gmail.com> writes:

> For whatever reason, gnus has been very temperamental with regards to
> gmail's imap. In my ~/.gnus.el I have
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 	     '(nnimap "gmail"
> 	       (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
> 	       (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
> 	       (nnimap-stream ssl)))
>

Did you try specifying the port as part of the select method?

http://asimakov.blogspot.com/2007/11/imap-gnus-gmailcom.html