From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45668 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No news is bad news--where are my groups? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026555843 7983 127.0.0.1 (13 Jul 2002 10:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17TK4J-00024e-00 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17TK4O-0000mZ-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:24:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA02941 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:24:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 11673 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2002 10:23:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11666 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2002 10:23:50 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Jul 2002 10:23:50 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g6DANMb03813; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:22 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id MAA29805; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:17 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 4D31C3B221; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:23:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jordan Katz Mail-Followup-To: Jordan Katz , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Jordan Katz's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:03:03 -0500 (CDT)") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45668 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45668 Jordan Katz 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 > , 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 -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)