From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 16:41:34 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 85AF81065672 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:34 +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 609468FC19 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org ([69.59.192.41]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({e03e86cd-14ae-47ce-9578-3c080ce9c462}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20100731164133577 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:33 +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 o6VGfW5V045620 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfF7s-0000RB-3W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:41:32 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <874ofgvodz.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> <864ofgdwf8.fsf@gmail.com> From: Carl Johnson Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:41:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <864ofgdwf8.fsf@gmail.com> (Anonymous's message of "Sat\, 31 Jul 2010 09\:58\:51 +0400") Message-ID: <87r5ijtxhf.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: Re: 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: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:34 -0000 Anonymous writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >> 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. > > Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? > nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for my other test and normal systems. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org