From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Dietrich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus trying to read news while I want only mail Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:29:40 +0200 Organization: solani.org Message-ID: <87li34wk4b.fsf@sperrhaken.name> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378841418 27960 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2013 19:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:30:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 10 21:30:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VJTdi-0001Fd-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJTdh-0004XJ-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: solani.org 1378841381 11668 eJwNxsERACEMA7GaOHsDlMOEpP8SDr2EYkROB2GansPI2MPeIkGHPrFC9ZYfUtW1DXtd/+8DD70= (10 Sep 2013 19:29:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:29:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLDRAeOaMU/xJ2R3X4DXO6cbn43mFHmVa3tGevu3IwYPN5zKkl8rs1vRYn1FKECTzB1R9LrRTT Cancel-Lock: sha1:IYyh4X6BD47uVp0Q7R+dDefxh8s= sha1:oBn+ws659JhK4x03XaYU19eVK3E= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQERACAIA8BKgmxoHNlB/wj+Y9OoDIKBwUTPERfNd+vE86pr1e7ZectldEhPvQJE9Qce8xFW Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201051 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93320 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari writes: > I want to use gnus only for reading mail, not newsgroup, so I've > removed the select-methods variables. You can set gnus-select-method to your preferred mail retrieval method if you don't want to use Gnus for news, like in the following example from the manual: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) If you have multiple e-mail accounts/servers you can then add them to `gnus-secondary-select-methods'. Have a look at the info-manual: (gnus) Getting Started Reading Mail (gnus) FAQ 3-6 > However, when I start gnus it spins searching for news > servers. I then set such variables to nil, but an error "attempting to > use a nil select method" arises. So I tried to point them to localhost > fake news server, and this made a connection error to raise and asked > me to continue or not, so I was able to get into gnus at last. I don't know what Gnus does when it starts and decides what servers to use. Having `gnus-select-method' set might be necessary for it to start-up without hick-ups. -- Felix Dietrich