Problems retrieving POP mail

Problems retrieving POP mail

[Joseph A. Martin]

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Hello,
	I am interested in using Gnus as a mail reader. I have tried
to setup a simple .gnus file that will retrieve my mail via POP3 and
sort it into various groups. My mail is retrieved (at least Gnus says
it is retrieved) but when I enter a group to read the new messages
something very weird happens. I do not see the new messages. Instead
messages that I have already seen and marked as read ('r') show up. If
I have retrieved five messages I will see three "new" messages in one
group and 2 "new" messages in another group. However in each case the
messages are ones I have already read and I can't find my new
messages.

I am using XEmacs 21.1.9 (I think. XEmacs 21.1.something at any rate.)
I am using Gnus 5.8.3.

My .gnus file is included below. I appreciate any help.

later,
joseph
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;; Define my news server
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnfolder "martinja" (nnfolder-directory "~/gnus/mail")))

;;(setq gnus-nntp-server 'nil)

(setq mail-sources
      '((file)
	(pop :server "mail.ice-works.com"
	     :password "jam00"
	     :user "martinja"
)))

(setq gnus-group-line-format "%M%S%p%5y: %(%~(pad-right 60)g%) Last read on %6,6~(cut 2)d\n")

;*------------
;;* Basic Mail Settings:
;; filter mail into different groups
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("mail.wx-dev" "^Sender:.*wx-devel-admin@wxwindows.org")
	("mail.lug" "^Sender:.*owner-twuug@memach.com")
	("mail.wxPython" "^Sender:.*wxpython-users-admin@starship.python.net")
	("mail.debian" "^X-Mailing-List.*debian-user@lists.debian.org")
	("mail.debain" "^X-Mailing-List.*debian-laptop@lists.debian.org")
	("mail.samba" "^Sender:.*samba-ntdom@samba.org")
	("mail.jess" "^From:.*jc\.n\.\me@juno.com")
	("mail.kevin" "^From:.*kevin006@yahoo.com")
	("mail.kevin" "^From:.*kcurwin@yahoo.com")
	("mail.general" "")
		)
)

(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
(add-hook 'message-send-hook 'ispell-message)
(setq gnus-message-archive-method
	'(nnfolder "archive"
		(nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)
		(nnfolder-active-file "~/gnus/mail/archive/active")
		(nnfolder-directory "~/gnus/mail/archive")
	))
(setq gnus-message-archive-group
	'(("^jess" "sent-to-jess"
	(".*" "sent-mail"))))

;;(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
;;	'((nnslashdot "")))

Re: Problems retrieving POP mail

[Kai Großjohann]

Ideas:

  * Maybe the `~' in the file name is a problem?  Can you replace it
    by the right value and see if that helps?

  * Does the mail actually end up in the nnfolder file, or is it not
    there at all?  (Use something other than Gnus to look at your
    nnfolder files.)

  * Do you see the mails with C-u RET on the group?

kai
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Re: Problems retrieving POP mail

[Kai Großjohann]

Joseph Martin <martinja@odeen.exis.net> writes:

> Something I noticed: the X-Gnus-Article-Number field had '3' -
> although the article was actually the seventh article in the
> file. Another article already had '3' in its X-Gnus-Article-Number
> field. The was another instance where two articles had the number '5'
> - possible explaining why one of those wasn't visible either.

Whee.  This sounds like a Gnus bug.

But the file you enclosed didn't have two articles numbered 3, it had
messages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -- five messages total.

Strange.

kai
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