Can't get nnmbox to read mail.

[Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Hi,

Is anyone using Gnus and nnmbox to read their mail? I've been trying
for some time but it just won't work.

Gnus starts but then it doesn't "inc" my mail. There are no error
messages and all my other groups come up. I am currently stuck using
nnfolder to read mail from the spool.

Below is my .gnus file. While trying to get this to work I have tried
various combinations of the items in my .gnus file, including using
the default movemail and substituting "$HOME" for "~".

I have also tried using "~/mbox" for the "nnmbox-mbox-file" and "~/active"
for the active file.

I am using Gnus 5.3 on AIX. I tried Gnus 5.4.16. but there was no
change.

Running the movemail listed in my .gnus file manually works.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.


.gnus

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(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox "")))

(setq nnmail-movemail-program 
"/usr/local/rlib/emacs/19.34/bin/emacs/19.34/rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5/movemail
/usr/spool/mail/zcaceog ~/Mail/nnmbox")

(setq nnmail-spool-file "/usr/spool/mail/zcaceog")

(setq nnmbox-get-new-mail t)
(setq nnmbox-mbox-file "~/Mail/nnmbox")
(setq nnmbox-active-file "~/Mail/nnmbox-active")

 
(setq gnus-soup-packer "tar cf - %s | gzip > $HOME/spout%d.tgz")
(setq gnus-soup-packet-regexp "spin")
(setq gnus-read-active-file nil)
(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil)
(setq gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups nil)
(setq gnus-nov-is-evil nil)
(setq gnus-show-threads nil)
(setq gnus-use-cross-reference nil)
(setq gnus-article-display-hook nil)

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Eze.