Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

[Carl Johnson]

ashish at FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes:

> Carl Johnson writes:
>> Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> 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.
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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org