From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Ferrari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: gnus trying to read news while I want only mail Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:35:10 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378827323 15803 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2013 15:35:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:35:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 10 17:35:28 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 1VJPyP-0005kc-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:35:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJPyP-00084o-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJPyE-00084U-Ol for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJPyC-0004qo-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]:64096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJPyB-0004qb-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hq15so888896wib.12 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=UxqKdnOWLlPoxxVPxQQxBcQFGzOv82B7X+HTGjY6NR4=; b=Pc5ZSvpXnqcDwhWgAl+9QGbrx7q/iZmYKi6l0pOhRRPpaa+fuhpuXg49Q3xb+vxEzn vM1iMrZiZ6IRGTqRy778n9jEr0CCq2Rx1vHvh0r/Q84praKHMeDNnVztgyoxZ9hO8qw2 skZ9agIFejnS4J7P0MQgCvfqu6KcFPgHBVhJ8knJ3Ra/gVlaFI4gU49TKlBBn65TCfUY fdLGq5fWUrRZEzlM9Dl78K8A6fvbmlakrgeovEPxX2GrKxZXRkbj2Pc9zrp60JUvjeFr bfRP14wkLqpk14rY+WPOkiDwvtfG+hqiAB1ryDvSpmm5uXd/eIByKav4qi9/yaJllB9q GPEQ== X-Received: by 10.180.108.162 with SMTP id hl2mr5106233wib.14.1378827310328; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.157.194 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2ieOCuSj0tdorIs15P_sfDhGOco X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d 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:93317 Archived-At: Hi, I'm moving the first steps into gnus following this tutorial http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial, and I've created my .gnus.el file with my mail information. I want to use gnus only for reading mail, not newsgroup, so I've removed the select-methods variables. 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. Is there a way to instrument gnus for not reading news at all? Thanks, Luca