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Subject: Re: Gnus won't read mail
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Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm trying to use Gnus 5.3 to read my mail but no matter what I do I
> can't get it to do anything. I have added
> 
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>       '((nnmbox "")))
> 
> to my .gnus file and tested it with various options ranging from none
> others to:
> 
> (setq nnmbox-get-new-mail t)
> (setq nnmbox-mbox-file "~/Mail/nnmbox")
> (setq nnmbox-active-file "~/Mail/nnmbox-active")
> 
> I have also tried setting the nnmail-spool-file.

Well, what is `nnmail-spool-file' and what is your spool file called?

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen