Re: Why isn't Gnus reading my mail?

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> I am trying to set up Gnus to read my mail.  I went through the manual
> and think I have figured out what to do.  So I put the following in my
> ~/.gnus:
>
> ,----[ My ~/.gnus: ]
> | (setq message-user-organization "")
> | (setq gnus-secondary-methods '((nnmaildir "")))
> | (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "mail.mathjunkies.com"
> |                           :user "username"
> |                           :password "password")))
> `----
>
> But, when I open up Gnus I have the following problems:
>
> 1.  The organization  isn't set to "".   It's using Road  Runner -- my
>     cable modem provider.

That's something your provider does, not Gnus.  You'll probably need
to set the organization to something (other than the empty string),
to prevent them from inserting it.

> 2.  I can't read any mail.  I've got my newsgroups but no mail.

Try nnml instead of nnmaildir.