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From: Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>
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Subject: Re: Problems copying Gnus configuration to a new account
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:05:48 +0100 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>:
>
>> I am trying to copy my complete Gnus setup to a different user account
>> (on the same host), but my *Group* buffer on the new account is empty
>> (0 Messages) and the *Server* buffer only has 'nnml:archive'.
>
> How did you copy the Gnus setup?  Ie. what files did you copy?

I have copied the files I mentioned in my original message.

  ~/.emacs
  ~/.gnus
  ~/.newsrc
  ~/.newsrc.eld
  ~/.mail/active

I am baffled by this, I even tried strace'ing emacs while Gnus is
doing its thing, and I cannot figure out which files Gnus needs to
recreate my original configuration.

 - Vegard V -