Trouble opening gmail nnimap server in Emacs gnus on Windows

Question

I\'m trying to use Emacs gnus to connect to my gmail account. This is the relevant configuration code, taken mostly from here:

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Answer 1

One thing I needed to do on Windows 7 to connect to gmail from gnus was:

;; So gnutls can find trustfiles on windows
(eval-after-load "gnutls"
'(progn
  (setq gnutls-trustfiles '("c:/cygwin/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt" "c:/cygwin/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt"))))

Other than that, rest of setup is similar:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '(
    (nnimap "gmail"
           (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
           (nnimap-server-port 993)
           (nnimap-stream ssl)
           (nnir-search-engine imap)
           (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
           )
    (nntp "news.gmane.org")
    (nnfolder "archive"
      (nnfolder-directory   "~/Documents/Text/Gnus/Mail/archive")
      (nnfolder-active-file "~/Documents/Text/Gnus/Mail/archive/active")
      (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
      (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))))

Able to read mail fine from gmail.