From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14162 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zachary Kline Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Utterly unable to read mail with Gnus Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:12:27 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <877hhorwfo.fsf@blackhawk.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291956002 10013 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 04:40:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:40:02 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 05:39:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQulx-0001Nj-Sv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:39:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQuhX-0001Jz-Lj for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:35:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: C2tFaf2f2dM8dRCK+HuKxA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:pb1uGvDyQI/ZoMpiQvJBG7OEwsg= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84830 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:27:54 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14162 Archived-At: Sean McAfee writes: > I've been using Gnus to read news for a while now, and I thought I'd > give it a try for mail as well. Alas, I've been wrestling with it for a > while today, to no good effect. > > I ran getmail, storing my mail in a maildir directory ~/Maildir. From > what I can tell, this should be all I need to do: > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnmaildir "mymail" (directory "~/Maildir")))) Hi Sean, I believe you need another level of directory in this case. Don't point Gnus to the maildir directly, point it to a directory containing the maildir(s) you want to read, and nothing else. You should then see the individual maildirs show up in the server buffer. Hth, Zack.