Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
Carl Johnson
carlj at peak.org
Sat Jul 31 04:09:07 UTC 2010
Byung-Hee HWANG <bh at izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:
> Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Hi, i'm on 8.1-RELEASE. There is no problem.
I am also talking about 8.1-RELEASE, so I don't what is causing my
problems then. I am using amd64, but I don't see how 32 bit vs 64 bit
could be making a difference. Thanks for your comment.
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Carl Johnson carlj at peak.org
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