Re: Utterly unable to read mail with Gnus

[Zachary Kline]

Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been using Gnus to read news for a while now, and I thought I'd
> give it a try for mail as well.  Alas, I've been wrestling with it for a
> while today, to no good effect.
>
> I ran getmail, storing my mail in a maildir directory ~/Maildir.  From
> what I can tell, this should be all I need to do:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>       '((nnmaildir "mymail" (directory "~/Maildir"))))
 Hi Sean,
I believe you need another level of directory in this case.  Don't point
Gnus to the maildir directly, point it to a directory containing the
maildir(s) you want to read, and nothing else.
You should then see the individual maildirs show up in the server
buffer.
Hth,
Zack.