Re: Trouble setting up Gnus

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

arnaud.oqube@gmail.com writes:

> I am back again trying to setting up Gnus as my mail reader and I
> encounter some annoying things I cannot explain. My setting is rather
> simple:
>  - I use offlineimap to fetch data for 2 accounts (Gmail + Office365)
>  - I configured Gnus to read this mails using mmmaildir. 

There are many people that either use IMAP directly (Gnus has become
very good at IMAP) if they don't need to access all their mails when
being offline, or use offlineimap to synchronize several remote IMAP
accounts with a local dovecot IMAP server.

I think, I'd recommend one of those approaches over syncing to
nnmaildir.

> Here are a list of concerns:
>  - when I open gnus, although I added 'gnus-topic-mode as a hook, groups
>  do not appear classified by topics but in plain list form,

You have to create topics first.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Topic Commands") ]
|    Here is a list of the basic keys that you might need to set up topics
| the way you like.
| 
| `T n'
|      Prompt for a new topic name and create it
|      (`gnus-topic-create-topic').
| [...]
`----

>  - again when I open gnus, groups' status does not appear to have been
>  saved and I got all my groups in the following format:
>
>         *: INBOX.linkedin
>         *: INBOX.kanbandev
>         *: INBOX.jsdoc
>         *: INBOX.js
>         *: INBOX.ieee-acm

I only use nntp and nnimap, so I'm not sure about this one...

>  - groups are never updated in the group buffer. I need enter them and
>    explicitly do M-g to update

So `g' in *Group* does nothing?  No output at all?

>  - bbdb does nothing, although I configured it to insinuate gnus:

What does "does nothing" mean exactly?  Don't you have completion in
To:/Cc: in message-mode buffers?

>  My .bbdb is never updated (maybe not gnus related)

I think, you have to hit `:' on a message in summary buffer to add a new
contact.  (But I don't use BBDB, so it might be some other key...)

Bye,
Tassilo