Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

[Carl Johnson]

Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org