From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how can I get rmail and gnus to work on winxp? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:46:48 +0100 Message-ID: <467fc748$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182782435 2421 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 14:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 16:40:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I2pk0-000442-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2pjz-0004BJ-Su for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:40:31 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.47.225.49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-X-Trace: 25 Jun 2007 14:46:52 +0100, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!tiscali!newsfeed2.ip.tiscali.net!212.74.112.120.MISMATCH!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.tiscali.com!mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149688 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45276 Archived-At: Hi I am not having a lot of success If I try RMAIL I get Counting messages...done Getting mail from the remote server ... movemail: Permission denied for c:/Documents and Settings/David/Application Data/ (No new mail has arrived) If I try gnus_no_server it does not allow me access to the newgroups without reading 2MB of headers If I do M-x gnus and wait fro 2Mb to download then ^ I get a nnfolder:archive It should say nnfolder:mail.misc If I click on nnfolder:archive it takes me to a buffer which is completely empty! My .gnus.el is (setq user-full-name "David R") (setq user-mail-address "angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk") (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list `("po:angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk")) (setenv "MAILHOST" "pop.tiscali.co.uk") (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("po:angel_ov_north@ticali.co.uk") rmail-pop-password-required t) (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.tiscali.co.uk") (setq smtpmail-local-domain nil) (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (load-library "smtpmail") (load-library "message") (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) ;(setq smtpmail-debug-info nil) ; {setq gnus-nntp-server 'nil) (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.tiscali.co.uk")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.newnet.co.uk")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gnus.org")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder "")) (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "pop.tiscali.co.uk" :user "angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk" :password ""))) David R