Re: No news is bad news--where are my groups?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Jordan Katz <underlevel@abas.host4u.net> 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
> <name of group>, 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
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