Re: Gnus and gmane

[Emanuel Berg]

Pietro <pulsarpietro@posteo.net> writes:

> ;; IMAP personal email
> (setq user-mail-address "xxxxxx@xxx.xx"
>       user-full-name    "xxxxx")
> (setq gnus-select-method 
>                       '(nnimap "xxxx"
>                   (nnimap-stream ssl)
>                   (nnimap-address "xxxxx")
>                   (nnimap-server-port "imaps")
>                   (nnir-search-engine imap)
>                   (nnimap-expunge-on-close 'ask)))

OK, so let's focus on Gmane and NNTP. You can comment
this out temporarily, enclose it in (when nil ... ),
or create a new .gnus and save the current one to
.gnus-out-of-action or whatever to bring back later
when Gmane works.

> ;; Newsgroups
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))

Looks good.

> ;; Ordering, I wish I knew what they are about
> (setq gnus-extract-address-components (quote mail-extract-address-components))
> (setq gnus-article-sort-functions
>       (quote (gnus-article-sort-by-number gnus-article-sort-by-date)))
> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
>       (quote
>         (gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)))

I'd say Gnus does a good job sorting by default.
Especially if you don't know what they are, you can
comment that out at the very least until you get
Gmane up.

> (custom-set-variables
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
>  '(smtpmail-smtp-server "xxxxxx")
>  '(smtpmail-smtp-service 587))

You don't need custom to do that. This is better:

    (setq message-send-mail-function #'smtpmail-send-it)

Note the CL-style hash quote to denote
a function literal.

> (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil)
>
> ;; init / fanfare / verbose
> (setq gnus-inhibit-startup-message t)
> (setq gnus-novice-user nil)
> (setq gnus-expert-user t)
> (setq gnus-interactive-exit 'quiet)
> (setq gnus-verbose 10)          ; [0, 10]
> (setq gnus-verbose-backends 10) ; ditto

That shouldn't affect your situation. You can
temporarily remove it just the same, just like the
SMTP stuff, just to do everything to isolate
the problem.

Another thing to try is, instead of having NNTP and
Gmane as a secondary method, try to do it number one,
i.e.:

    (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))

I've had it number one (as now) but also as
a secondary method, so both should work, of course,
but in our attempts to isolate the problem it seems
like a reasonable thing to do.

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