Re: problems reading IMAP mail

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Sep 20 2005, David Nash wrote:

[ Gnus v5.9.0 ]
> but the suggestions there don't work for me (partly because I am 
> using emacs over ssh so I don't control what software is on the host).

I'd recommend to upgrade to Gnus 5.10.6 as Simon suggested in one of
these threads.  You can install a new Gnus version without updating
Emacs.  (Gnus needs less than 10 MB.)

> When I try to get new mail from the IMAP server, using M-g say, I
> get the error "Ephemeral groups can't be reselected"

How did you subscribe to the IMAP group?
gnus-secondary-select-methods?  It shouldn't not be an ephemeral
group.

Bye, Reiner.
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