From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 18:02:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3AC106567D for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:02:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B148FC27 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org ([69.59.192.42]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({e03e86cd-14ae-47ce-9578-3c080ce9c462}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20100730180251918 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:02:51 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from cjlinux.localnet (207.55.91.197.peak.org [207.55.91.197] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id o6UI2mZI096913 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oetuy-0004O0-Dw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:48 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Carl Johnson Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:48 -0700 Message-ID: <874ofgvodz.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:02:52 -0000 I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Does anybody have any suggestions on what is different? I have been using gnus for many years and I don't really want to change to another mail program. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org