Re: Checking mail

[Niels L. Ellegaard]

David Sumbler <david@aeolia.co.uk> writes:

> It seems to be working OK, but in the Group buffer all my mail groups
> appear with an asterisk instead of the number of unread messages (I am
> using the default gnus-group-line-format).  And the line appears in
> cyan instead of grey like all my newsgroups.
>
> Also, when I press 'g' to to get new "articles" only proper newsgroups
> are updated, not the mail groups.  The only way I seem to be able to
> get the actual number of unread e-mails to show in the Group buffer is
> to enter then quit each group in turn.

The following is a wild guess: I once had a somewhat similar
problem. This problem occured because I had lowered the level of the
nnfolder group to 5.

www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_25.html

I am not sure if this is the reason for your problems, but at least
it's worth a try :)

                             Good luck

                                  Niels