Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:58:51 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email Message-ID: <864ofgdwf8.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <874ofgvodz.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:48 -0700") References: <874ofgvodz.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes: > I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I > can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a > working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the > system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no > mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have > never gotten it to repeat since then. > > I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system > mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line > mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling > mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no > change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read > mail with a blank .gnus file. Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? > > Does anybody have any suggestions on what is different? I have been > using gnus for many years and I don't really want to change to another > mail program. Thanks for any ideas.
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