On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:15:52PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote: > > Has anyone had success setting up the emacs news > > reader gnus? I ran through a tutorial on it but > > gnus only shows > > > > *: nndraft:drafts > > > > Here's my .gnus file: > > > > ; -*- emacs-lisp -*- > > > > (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") > > (setq user-full-name "Issac Trotts") > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.ucdavis.edu")) > > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > > (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "scarlet.ucdavis.edu") > > > > Issac > > How do you know it's not working? Do you get an error message? Or have > you simply not subscribed to a newsgroup? > > Subscribe to a newsgroup by typing "U" and then entering the > newsgroup's name: or, get the full newsgroup listing from your server > by typing "A A", and when you have the cursor over a candidate, type > "u" (lower-case). These are all menu options, too BTW. > > If you aren't using Emacs in X, you can access the menu options with > "M-~". > > HTH, > Micah
That helps, though the main problem was that I wasn't waiting long enough for the connection to news.gnus.org. The UC Davis server still shows nothing, but I think I need to do something Davis-specific to get it working. Issac _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
