From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31647 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Spencer Marks Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: upgrading help request Date: 04 Jul 2000 13:09:20 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: smarks@digisolutions.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168033 15282 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F342BD0520 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAC08702; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 04 Jul 2000 12:18:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24705 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from varible.digisolutions.com (bbaggins.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.250.133]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F2ED0520 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:18:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from sam@localhost) by varible.digisolutions.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id NAA05134; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:09:20 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 87 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31647 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31647 Hi, I am having trouble upgrading to 5.8.7 and would really appreicate some help. First, I am upgrading in the hopes of handling attachments better. (I am using FSF emacs, would I have better look with xemacs? Note: if this is a "hot" topic, I didn't mean to ignite anything. Non baised pro and cons would be wlecome though). I downloaded the source in gnus.tar.gz and compiled it. I also noticed other archives pgnus and pspackages and etc.tar.gz. From reading the readmes, it looks pgnus and and gnus are the same thing with different version numbers? That is periodically pgnus gets rolled in gnus. Is this correct? If not, which do people recommend I use? I couldn't determine what etc or pspackage where for. Next, I installed 5.8.7 by just by adding (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-sandbox/gnus-5.8.7/lisp") load-path)) (setq Info-default-directory-list (cons "~/gnus-sandbox/gnus-5.8.7/texi" Info-default-directory-list)) That seemed to do the the trick. However, my existing .gnus file didn't seem to work. I narrowed the problem down to this line: (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) I really did spend some time reseaching this issue, but the best I could come up with was the fact that things have changed and I am not the only one stuck. The entry in the FAQ didn't help me enough to get straighted out. I am using procmail to split my spool into a bunch of seperate files all under ~/mail/nnfolder. If anyone out there wouldn't mind holding my hand through this I'd be grateful. I've appended my existing .gnus file. Save for above line, things seem to work OK. When I comment out the problematic line gnus startup OK, but, as I'd expect, checking mail files. It just stay in the incoming folder. Thanks much, Spencer ;; comment the next line to in order to be able to ;; read news as primary. ;; this also requires (setq gnus-select-method '(nnfolder "")) ;; and uncomment this line: ;; '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "news.ne.mediaone.net"))) (setq nnmail-use-procmail t) (setq nnmail-spool-file "~/mail/incoming/sam") (setq nnfolder-directory "~/mail/nnfolder/") (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/") ;;(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail) ;; probably junk, but Stan doesn't remember why this is here (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.ne.mediaone.net"))) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder ""))) (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "") (setq message-default-mail-headers "Reply-to: smarks@digisolutions.com\nFcc: ~/mail/outgoing\n") (setq mail-default-headers "Reply-to: smarks@digisolutions.com\nFcc: ~/mail/outgoing\n") ;;(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) ;;(add-hook 'news-reply-mode-hook 'mc-install-write-mode) (setq gnus-your-domain "digisolutions.com") ;; keep old mail around (setq mail-archive-file "~/mail/outgoing")