From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82053 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: arnaud.oqube@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Trouble setting up Gnus Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:30:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87y5mf258w.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87d33s2oyj.fsf@gmail.com> <87vchj96se.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: arnaud.oqube@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342708238 8467 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2012 14:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: arnaud.oqube@gmail.com, ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30323@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 19 16:30:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SrrkL-0004iH-GP for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SrrkG-0004kO-78; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SrrkF-0004kE-62 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Srrk9-0000ZT-Tm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com ([209.85.212.176]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Srrk8-0005Al-Cn for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: by wibhn17 with SMTP id hn17so4304607wib.5 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:30:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:reply-to:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=taiXovZfRQPyX+TqUIS23ykf8l4WTJVEGIieHtPNxlA=; b=gpkFXIU+sz66Kir6LtBnw92jVNta2ZS2wFTJApAXuRRr98UAQviXcGYE3jGSQqA5ld VWAcA56c0z0oIGhagDRCRKe333N/K9SW1OQ45SRng/ONCSoFjGS4u8AjtJ1SZ6Fqw2Iz 3Jw6d1RMoEhehLFzbELcuF6mSE3t+eGEI778s/p0fq88NzKD0Ran2OPtaKqeo+oDc8Ha dOtr4x+SzeVSnAqg60ZP79xFyeSdvRyoQhsE0kgTpQuHqKdgSeTgoDbAvZHEr9c6XNdS 5v+XDKp9i7PG159IPg/yIyDv9RsehkA6WlCUG1YDsmtzLgtWSS3QkgEDiDETZFiwlm14 bDbw== Original-Received: by 10.216.240.79 with SMTP id d57mr1347179wer.3.1342708208893; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from parnaud.polyspot.com (LNantes-156-76-100-31.w80-12.abo.wanadoo.fr. [80.12.85.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ef5sm6498397wib.3.2012.07.19.07.30.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:30:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vchj96se.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:14:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82053 Archived-At: Hello, Tassilo Horn 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