Well, even though you're all stumped as to why that .gnus file doesn't work, I think i've tracked the problem down to something other than Gnus.
When I "inc" my mail for mh, i get this message: inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/lars And when Gnus calls movemail to get my mail from the spool file, I get this error message: nnml: Reading incoming mail... Getting mail from /var/spool/mail/lars... movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/Ea10189--see source file lib-src/movemail.c Cannot read active file from nnml server. This isn't the only problem with my mail setup. When I send messages with something like "echo test | mail lars" i get this message after waiting a few minutes: cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied The perms on /var/spool/mqueue are drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Nov 25 17:16 mqueue/ which can't be right. I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :( Thanks again -lars -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GU>CS>AT dpu s-:- a--->? C+++ UL++++>U++++ P+>? L+++ E>+ W+ N++ o? K? w-->--- O! M-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X-- R- tv-->! b+/++>+++ DI+ D+ G>++ e- h! !r !z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]