Re: gnus starting with an error message - very strange

[Emil Vatai <emil.vatai@gmail.com>]

BINGO! or DISCO! (or EUREKA!)

Thank you Adam! I think you found the problem!

> Does the hostname "news" resolve on one machine and not on the other?

This was the key.  The good machine was on the university network, and they probably have a host called news and it does resolve there!  The other two computers are on a home network with no host corresponding to news.

> 
> What is the value of the variables gnus-select-method and
> gnus-secondary-select-methods?

gnus-select method was "news" and secondary was nil (when starting with emacs -Q).

> Do you use any news servers? If so, what are they called?
> 
> I always tend to set gnus-select-method to '(nnnil), and then I have all
> my servers defined in gnus-secondary-select-methods.
> 

I just started using gnus, I want to use it for email (not sure if it is a good idea, the manual says it will be awesome - if I get the hang of it).  In my case I guess I should also set gnus-select-method to '(nnnil) right and set the mail servers in the secondary, right?

Thank you again! This was very frustrating and was bugging me very much!

Best regards,
Emil