Re: Gnus and gmane

[Pietro <pulsarpietro@posteo.net>]

> Pietro <pulsarpietro@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I am following the instructions [...]
>
> Good instructions! :)

Hey, looks who's here, you might find yourself familiar to most of its
fragments

:-)

;; IMAP personal email
(setq user-mail-address "xxxxxx@xxx.xx"
      user-full-name    "xxxxx")
(setq gnus-select-method 
			'(nnimap "xxxx"
		    (nnimap-stream ssl)
		    (nnimap-address "xxxxx")
		    (nnimap-server-port "imaps")
		    (nnir-search-engine imap)
		    (nnimap-expunge-on-close 'ask)))

;; Newsgroups
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))

;; Ordering, I wish I knew what they are about
(setq gnus-extract-address-components (quote mail-extract-address-components))
(setq gnus-article-sort-functions
      (quote (gnus-article-sort-by-number gnus-article-sort-by-date)))
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      (quote
        (gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)))

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
 '(smtpmail-smtp-server "xxxxxx")
 '(smtpmail-smtp-service 587))

(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil)

;; init / fanfare / verbose
(setq gnus-inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq gnus-novice-user nil)
(setq gnus-expert-user t)
(setq gnus-interactive-exit 'quiet)
(setq gnus-verbose 10)          ; [0, 10]
(setq gnus-verbose-backends 10) ; ditto

>
>> I do subscribe a group but nothing happens and when
>> I restart gnus it gets stuck on "Checking new news",
>> furthermore the subscribed group does not appear in
>> the *Groups* buffer.
>
> What do you have in your config files?