Re: Trouble setting up Gnus

[arnaud.oqube@gmail.com]

Hello,

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> 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.
>

OK. That is my plan B :-)

>>  - 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.
>

So I did. 

>
>>  - 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?
>

Well, not really not output, it sometimes updates the groups. But it
never update them with new messages.

>>  - 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?
>

No. I do not.

>>  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...)

ah! ah! Did not know this one. Last time I used this, mails were
automatically scrapped from the Article buffer.

Thanks for your interest.
-- 
Arnaud