I've been using gnus for a while, and it's a very appealing system. But I have one problem: sometimes gnus does not notice new emails in my imap inbox. These emails show up in mutt and Thunderbird, but not in gnus. I use M-g, and still nothing. I also try g and the fetch options from the agent menu. Nothing seems to work. I think the problem is that I do not only use gnus. Gnus seems to track emails properly if it's the only thing I use to read mail, but if I open up anything else -- not even to read mail, but just to see if there's new mail -- gnus then fails to notice anything new (since the last time I used another app). It's odd. I'm not marking messages as read in the other apps, I'm just looking at the list of new mails. If I do that, gnus gets confused.
I am a novice user, and I have no idea (really) which settings might influence this, so I have appended (sorry) my entire .gnus file below (much of this file has been copied and pasted from other sources). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Ross .gnus: ;; General Speedups (setq gnus-read-active-file nil) (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil) (setq gnus-nov-is-evil nil) (setq gnus-save-newsrc-file t) ;; Use a second connection to grab the next article when I read one, so ;; I don't have to wait for it be downloaded. (setq gnus-asynchronous t) (defun gnus-demon-scan-mail-or-news-and-update () "Scan for new mail/news and update the *Group* buffer" (when (gnus-alive-p) (save-window-excursion (save-excursion (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer) (gnus-group-get-new-news))))) (defun gnus-demon-scan-and-update () (gnus-demon-scan-mail-or-news-and-update)) ;; Sort threads by the date of the root node. (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions `(gnus-thread-sort-by-date)) (load-library "message") (setq mail-sources '(imap :server "mail.server.info" :user "user" :password "password")) (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mail-imap" (nnimap-address "mail.rosslaird.info"))) (setq nnimap-list-pattern "INBOX") (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '( (nnimap "mail-imap" (nnimap-address "mail.server.info") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-authenticator login) (nnimap-nov-is-evil t) (nnir-search-engine imap) (remove-prefix "INBOX.") (nnimap-authinfo-file "/home/user/.authinfo" )))) (setq gnus-group-sort-by-server) (setq gnus-thread-hide-subtree) (setq nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news) (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.server.info") (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (setq message-send-mail-real-function 'smtpmail-send-it) ;(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m-standalone) (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext")) ;(setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnimap+rosslaird:INBOX.Sent") (setq gnus-outgoing-message-group "nnimap+rosslaird:INBOX.Sent") (setq nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail t) (setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t) (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) ;(add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news) (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %d %I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n") (setq gnus-directory "~/gnus") (setq message-directory "~/gnus/mail") (setq nnml-directory "~/gnus/nnml-mail") (setq gnus-article-save-directory "~/gnus/saved") (setq gnus-kill-files-directory "~/gnus/scores") (setq gnus-cache-directory "~/gnus/cache") (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode) (require 'gnus-demon) ;(setq gnus-use-demon t) ;(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 10 2) (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-and-update 10 2) (setq gnus-use-demon t) (gnus-demon-init) ; browsing (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox browse-url-new-window-flag t browse-url-firefox-new-window-is-tab t) -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english