Re: No news is bad news--where are my groups?

[Jordan Katz <underlevel@abas.host4u.net>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Kai [iso-8859-15] Großjohann wrote:

> Jordan Katz <underlevel@abas.host4u.net> writes:
> 
> >   Yesterday I switched from Red Hat 6.0 + Emacs 20 to Debian 3.0 (woody) 
> > with Emacs21.  I downloaded the latest version of Gnus, plugged in my old 
> > .gnus file, but it didn't quite work.  When I loaded Gnus it said that the 
> > nntp server couldn't be opened (I'm using mindspring.com to connect and 
> > I'm pretty sure the server's just mindspring.com--if anyone knows 
> > otherwise let me know) but I press 'y' to continue without.
> 
> Hm, I can't really say much about this.
> 
> > Then, all my email messages were correctly downloaded, but no groups
> > other than the ndrafts group were shown.  I have my .gnus file split
> > my mail into groups, and I checked in ~/Mail and indeed the groups
> > are there--there's a directory for each group and messages in it.
> > However, none are displayed.  I tried doing M-x
> > gnus-activate-all-groups but that didn't work.. I also tried doing U
> > <name of group>, for example U mail.other but it also didn't work.
> > Can someone please help me fix this issue?  My entire .gnus file is
> > pasted below for reference.
> 
> The groups are named like nnml+private:mail.other, not just
> mail.other.  You can hit ^ to go to the server buffer, then hit RET
> or SPC on the nnml server, then use `u' to subscribe to the groups.
> 
> kai

Hello,

  I was about to try your suggestions, but now when I M-x gnus I get the 
error: Mail source error ((error underlevel.net/110 Temporary failure in 
 name resolution)).  Continue? (yes or no)  

  I have no idea what is causing this--I never got this error yesterday 
and my setup haven't changed since.  It's obviously not a server issue 
because I'm now accessing my email from the same server in ~/.gnus.

Thanks a lot,
--
Jordan Katz <webmaster@underlevel.net>