From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 04:10:14 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 19281106564A for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:10:14 +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 E60158FC1F for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:10:13 +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 20100809041012949 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:10:12 +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 o794AAsh041255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiJgf-00089F-PD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:10:09 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <874ofgvodz.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> <864ofgdwf8.fsf@gmail.com> <87r5ijtxhf.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> <86bp9cq5pr.fsf@chateau.d.if> From: Carl Johnson Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:10:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <86bp9cq5pr.fsf@chateau.d.if> (Ashish SHUKLA's message of "Mon\, 09 Aug 2010 00\:42\:16 +0530") Message-ID: <87pqxsctpa.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: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:10:14 -0000 ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: >> Anonymous writes: ... > >>> 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. > > So, Gnus is not able to read from mail spool, i.e. /var/mail/$USER, right ? > Can you post your .gnus ? The problem was that I somehow got into the agent unplugged mode, but everything started working when I figured that out. I previously posted a little more information as a response to my original post, so that should be in the archives. Thanks for your reply. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org