Re: Gnus not recognizing IMAP select method

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:13:23 -0700 (PDT) mkbehr@gmail.com wrote: 

m> I'm new to Gnus, and I'm trying to use nnimap with an IMAP server on
m> localhost, but Gnus doesn't seem to be acknowledging its existence.
m> The Group buffer is completely empty, and the Server buffer only
m> contains the line "{nnfolder:archive} (closed)". I get no error
m> message or anything - it just doesn't seem to notice that the select
m> method exists. I've checked to make sure gnus-secondary-select-methods
m> is actually getting set (it is), and I'm not sure what else to do. How
m> can I fix this?
m> Here's my .gnus.el:
m> (setq mail-sources nil)
m> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")
m>       gnus-secondary-select-methods nil)
m> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
m>  '(nnimap "localhost"
m>            (nnimap-address "localhost")
m>            (nnimap-port 143)
m>            (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")))

Hit `^' to see the Server buffer.  If the nnimap server doesn't show up,
what's in your newsrc file?  If it does, press RET on the server and
then `u' to subsribe/unsubscribe to a group.

Ted