From: "DavidEng" <davideng2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Configuration Trouble
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:06:06 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y9w1f.18$Iq3.14@trndny01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.10.01.08.03.29.452138@blax.blajkx>
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"baxter tron" <blax@blax.blajkx> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.10.01.08.03.29.452138@blax.blajkx...
> Hello,
>
> I use to read news and mail with Gnus about a year ago, and I would like
> to start using it again. However, I am having problems. This is quite
> odd since I am using the same exact configuration files that I used
> previously.
>
> My first problem is that when I hit 'L' in the group buffer all I get is
> the following:
>
> 74: news.announce.newusers (m)
> 358: news.groups.questions
> 1641: gnu.emacs.gnus
> 10: nndoc+gnus-help:gnus-help
> *: nndraft:queue
> *: nndraft:drafts
> When I believe I should get a list of all available groups on my server.
> BTW, when I start Gnus for the very first time Gnus reads a list of ~6MB
> of groups.
>
> This in itself wouldn't be a horrible thing, since I can still subscribe
> to groups by using 'U' in the group summary, except I come up with another
> problem. At first everything seems to be working fine. I can download
> all headers for a particular group, and view the bodies. But when I mark
> all the articles read (using 'c' from the group buffer) Gnus will never
> find any new articles in when updating with 'g' or restarting Gnus.
>
> Here is my .gnus file:
> ;; -*- emacs-lisp -*-
>
> (setq user-mail-address "wbennett@kyonline.net")
> (setq user-full-name "Will Bennett")
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.allthenewsgroups.com"))
>
> ;; incoming mail
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '(nnml ""
> (nnml-directory "~/gnus-mail/")
> (nnml-active-file "~/gnus-mail/active")))
>
>
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "mail.kyonline.net
> :user "wbennett"
> :password "Left Blank")))
> ;; outgoing mail
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail.kyonline.net")
>
>
> ;; auto-wrap messages
> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
> '(lambda ()
> (turn-on-auto-fill)
> (setq fill-column 70)))
>
>
> Is there something wrong with my configuration file or do I just have
> little or no idea how to use Gnus? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Will Bennett
> wbennettNO@SPAMkyonline.net
>
>
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2005-10-01 8:03 baxter tron
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