>>> "AS" == Adam Sjøgren writes: > Uwe writes: >> After restarting emacs and gnus I received a message saying >> >> Mail source (file) failed: (error Cannot get new mail) >> >> But everything seems to be fine, what is the reason for this message > mail-sources defaults to ((file)), which means Gnus will try fetching > email from the local file system (/var/mail/LOGIN on most machines): > ,----[ C-h v mail-sources RET ] > | mail-sources is a variable defined in ‘mail-source.el’. > | Its value is ((file) (imap :server "mail.koldfront.dk" :stream tls)) > | Original value was ((file)) > | > | Documentation: > | Where the mail backends will look for incoming mail. > | This variable is a list of mail source specifiers. > | See Info node ‘(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers’. > | > `---- > It sounds to me like that is failing in your setup, somehow. Emacs should not do that, I only fetch from imap and gmane news servers. This message never popped up? But I can access my email via imap without problems. Very very strange.. Thanks Uwe