From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15725 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Gardella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: [Postfix] Unable to open server Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:57:24 +0400 Message-ID: <87mx1udmzv.fsf@gmail.com> References: <9a81e2d4-0ea7-46bf-9f3c-fae90c499acf@ft6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345186667 11862 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2012 06:57:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:57:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Fri Aug 17 08:57:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GV3-0008GW-Gu for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:57:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33573 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GV2-0007ko-Ie for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GV0-0007ke-N7 for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GUz-00081q-Jf for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GUz-00081Y-Cp for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2GUx-00083j-CP for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:57:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 87.249.59.250 ([87.249.59.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:57:35 +0200 Original-Received: from gardellawg by 87.249.59.250 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:57:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.249.59.250 X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ca5dOa6i5f+EB1GbvttgXmPcKFg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15725 Hi, "." writes: > Gnus has successfully created a "~/Mail" dir that has all content from > "~/Maildir," but when I'm starting Gnus I get the error. > How to fix this? > > I guess that I should add my "~/Mail" dir as a group but I'm not sure > how to do it. > > > Thanks If that's your entire Gnus config, the error you are seeing is because `gnus-select-method' is not set to anything yet, and Gnus expects to see a main select method in addition to the secondary select methods (yes, this is an instance of Gnus acting like a newsreader and expecting to connect to an NNTP server). There are a few solutions: - Set up an NNTP server as `gnus-select-method' (I use news.gmane.org here, because I actually find the Gmane service incredibly useful anyway). - Set up some other kind of group as 'gnus-select-method'; this could even be your mail/nnml setup, perhaps on the lines of http://eschulte.me/emacs24-starter-kit/starter-kit-gnus.html which demonstrates this, albeit with IMAP and not local maildir mail. - Start up gnus with the tricky command M-x gnus-no-server instead of M-x gnus. `gnus-no-server' simply skips the step of checking for a primary select method/news server.