pgnus won't read mail

pgnus won't read mail

[Norman Walsh]

Almost certainly my fault, but I can't figure out what's wrong.

The keyboard on my laptop died, so I'm trying to get things
setup on another machine where I've got NT Emacs 20.3.  So I
figured, what the heck, let's go to pgnus-0.33.

Things seem to be working fine except that gnus won't read my
new mail.  Both 'g' and 'C-u g' seem to go off and check the
nttp server.  Hitting '^' shows me that nnml is running and
open.

Relavant bits of my .gnus.el file below.  Show me
the error of my ways ;-)

  ;; Not using POP3:
  (setq nnmail-spool-file "~/.incoming/mail.spool")
  (if (equal system-type 'windows-nt)
      (setq nnmail-movemail-program 
  	  "j:/emacs-20.3.1/bin/movemail.exe"))
  
  ;; Using nnmail-split-methods?
  (setq nnmail-use-procmail nil)
  
  (load "make-regexp")
  (setq nnmail-split-methods [...elided for brevity...])
  
  ;; Other settings...
  
  (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.berkshire.net"))
  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
  
  (setq nnmail-delete-incoming t)
  (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail/")
  (setq nndraft-directory "~/.maildrafts")
  
  (setq gnus-save-killed-list nil)
  (setq nnmail-keep-last-article nil)
  (setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)
  
  (setq nnmail-crosspost nil)
  (setq nnmail-crosspost-link-function 'copy-file)
  
  (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
  (setq gnus-save-duplicate-list t)
  (setq gnus-duplicate-list-length 1000)
  (setq gnus-duplicate-file "~/.news.dups")
  
  (setq gnus-default-subscribed-newsgroups t)
  (setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-alphabetically)
  (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 500)
  (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M%S%5y,%3T: %(%g%)
  ")
  
  (setq message-yank-prefix "| ")
  
  (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
  
  (add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook 'add-bcc-header)
  (add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook 'ndw-patch-reply-to)
  (add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook 'add-x-local-group-name)
  
  (setq gnus-message-archive-group
        '((if (message-news-p)
  	    "news" 
  	  (format "%s.%s" 
  		  (format-time-string 
  		   "%Y-%m" (current-time))
  		  machine-name))))
  
  (setq gnus-article-display-hook
        '(gnus-article-hide-headers-if-wanted 
          gnus-article-date-lapsed
          gnus-article-hide-pgp
          gnus-article-hide-boring-headers
          gnus-article-treat-overstrike
          gnus-article-de-quoted-unreadable
          gnus-article-strip-leading-blank-lines
          gnus-article-remove-trailing-blank-lines
          gnus-article-strip-multiple-blank-lines
          gnus-article-highlight
          gnus-article-emphasize))
  
  
  
  

Re: pgnus won't read mail

[Norman Walsh]

/ Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
| Almost certainly my fault, but I can't figure out what's wrong.

Digging through the sources looking for clues, I discovered that
I can run

  (nnmail-get-new-mail 'nnml 'nnml-save-nov nnml-directory)

by hand in the *scratch* buffer and it does "the right thing".
I'm more confused than ever, but at least I can read my mail now ;-)