Re: Cannot connect to nntp.gmane.org news.gmane.org nntp.aioe.org and most of the nntp servers

[bullone]

Sorry, I forgot to mention my environment:
My system is Emacs 24.3.50.1 on Debian Wheezy stable
Gnus V5.13, 
Dovecot 2.1.7
Offlineimap 6.3.4

bullone於 2013年10月27日星期日UTC+8上午12時26分47秒寫道：
> After  a long time struggling with   gnus  to integrate with offlineimap and 
> dovecot, gnus could read mails from the integration.
> 
> 
> 
> During the  integrating process, at first  my dovecot was not configured well
> 
> (I lost the  "LAYOUT=fs" of "mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs"), 
> all my INBOXes of several gmail accounts mixed in one INBOX ,and some 
> contents of the messages did not correspond to titles in the summary buffer.
> 
> 
> 
> At that time I blindly did gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups a lot of 
> times.
> 
> I didn't know whether this action would ruin  my .newsrc.eld or not.
> 
> 
> 
> Now I could see the groups of nnimap methods which  connect to my local 
> dovecot maildir(although there are still something I cannot explain: 
> 
> like---each nnimap method contains groups which should belong to other 
> methods and I cannot open these kind of groups).
> 
> 
> 
> What's worse is  I cannot open any NNTP servers anymore.
> 
> 
> 
> I've asked on the #gnus, and googled but still have no ideas about it .
> 
> 
> 
> when I open gnus, the error as below appears:
> 
> >>> (error nntp.gmane.org/nntp 未知的名稱或服務)
> 
> nntp (nntp.gmane.org) open error: '>>> (error nntp.gmane.org/nntp 未知的名稱或服務)'. 
>  Continue? (y or n)  n
> 
> Couldn't open server on nntp.gmane.org
> 
> Quit [3 times]
> 
> 
> 
> and I have tried as batin suggested(batin:Thank you :-)) :
> 
> 1.C-u M-x gnus
> 
> 2. restart emacs with "-q" 
> 
> 3. rename .newsrc and .newsrc.eld
> 
> but still with no luck...
> 
> 
> 
> below is my .gnus:
> 
> 
> 
> (require 'pgg)
> 
> (setq user-full-name "Frank")
> 
> (setq nnrss-use-local t)
> 
> (setq imap-shell-program "MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
> 
> (defun my-message-mode-setup ()
> 
>    (setq fill-column 72)
> 
>    (turn-on-auto-fill))
> 
>   (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'my-message-mode-setup)
> 
> 
> 
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
> 
> (setq sendmail-program "/usr/bin/msmtp")
> 
> (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups ".*")
> 
> (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
> 
> (require 'gnus-switch)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> and below is part of my custom-file:
> 
>  '(gnus-buttonized-mime-types (quote ("multipart/alternative" 
> "multipart/signed")))
> 
>  '(gnus-default-charset (quote chinese-iso-8bit))
> 
>  '(gnus-group-list-inactive-groups nil)
> 
>  '(gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist (quote ((".*" . utf-8) 
> ("\\\\.com\\\\.cn:" . cn-gb-2312))))
> 
>  '(gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist (quote (((nntp "news.newsfan.net") . 
> gbk))))
> 
>  '(gnus-group-use-permanent-levels t)
> 
>  '(gnus-keep-same-level t)
> 
>  '(gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets (quote (unknown-8bit x-unknown 
> iso-8859-1)))
> 
>  '(gnus-notifications-minimum-level 3)
> 
>  '(gnus-save-killed-list nil)
> 
>  '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "news.gmane.org")))
> 
>  '(gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 
>    (quote
> 
>     ((nnimap "kiss"
> 
>              (nnimap-address "localhost")
> 
>              (nnimap-server-port 993)
> 
>              (nnimap-stream shell)
> 
>              (nnimap-shell-program "MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir/kiss 
> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
> 
>              (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo.gpg"))
> 
>      (nnimap "99"
> 
>              (nnimap-address "localhost")
> 
>              (nnimap-server-port 993)
> 
>              (nnimap-stream shell)
> 
>              (nnimap-shell-program "MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir/99 
> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
> 
>              (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo.gpg"))
> 
>      (nnimap "kulug"
> 
>              (nnimap-address "localhost")
> 
>              (nnimap-server-port 993)
> 
>              (nnimap-shell-program "MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir/kulug 
> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
> 
>              (nnimap-stream shell)
> 
> 
> 
> Any idea will be appreciate!
> 
> Frank