Re: My drafts group has disappeared

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 14:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> 
wrote: 

DD> My newsrc.eld already contains these entries in  gnus-newsrc-alist:

DD> ("nndraft:queue" 1 nil nil (nndraft "") ((gnus-dummy (gnus-draft-
DD> mode)))) ("nndraft:drafts" 6 ((5 . 7) (9 . 10) 12 (16 . 17) (19 . 20)
DD> (23 . 26) 28 32 (35 . 37) 39 41 (43 . 44) (46 . 50) (52 . 56) (58 .
DD> 60) 71 (73 . 79) (81 . 83) 86 (89 . 90) (94 . 98) 100 (102 . 105)
DD> (114 . 117) 119 122 124 (126 . 128) (131 . 132) 134 (136 . 137) (139 .
DD> 140) 142) nil (nndraft "") ((gnus-dummy (gnus-draft-mode))))

DD> I tried deleting them and adding the simpler versions you provide
DD> above as the first elements in the alist, but this didn't make a
DD> drafts group appear. I also tried C-c C-d, which does save a file in
DD> the drafts folder but didn't enlighten me as to how to get the folder
DD> to appear in gnus.

This may be obvious, but have you tried `L' to see all groups?

DD> Sorry for the slow reply. Your message hasn't appeared in nntp
DD> gmane.emacs.gnus.user and so I only came across it when doing a web
DD> search for my first message. I'm writing in google groups in a browser
DD> at the moment. It's painful. How does one use gnus to follow this
DD> mailing list?

I read this newsgroup as gnu.emacs.gnus on a standard USENET server.
You can use eternal-september (see http://www.eternal-september.org/)
for instance.

Ted