From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45669 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jordan Katz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No news is bad news--where are my groups? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:35:08 -0500 (CDT) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026581907 10352 127.0.0.1 (13 Jul 2002 17:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17TQqh-0002gr-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:38:27 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17TQoM-00018m-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:36:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA03237 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:36:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26488 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2002 17:35:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26482 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2002 17:35:45 -0000 Original-Received: from abas.host4u.net (209.150.128.174) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Jul 2002 17:35:45 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (underlevel@localhost) by abas.host4u.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6DHZ8C31041; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:35:08 -0500 Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45669 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45669 On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Kai [iso-8859-15] Großjohann wrote: > Jordan Katz 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 > > , 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