Subject: weird messages on sending mail

From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:35:59 -0500

When I send e-mail, I get a stream of error messages:

Sending via mail...
Sending email 
Sending email done
Sending...done
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.ess.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.ess.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.ess.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.devel
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.devel error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.devel
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lang.r.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lang.r.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.lang.r.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.nxml.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.nxml.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.nxml.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.common-lisp.implementation-hackers
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.common-lisp.implementation-hackers error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.common-lisp.implementation-hackers
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.java.beanshell.user
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.java.beanshell.user error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.java.beanshell.user
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.announce
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.announce error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.announce
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.user
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.user error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.user
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.user
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.user error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.user
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.apps
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.apps error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.apps
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.bbdb.user error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.misc
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.misc error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.text.docbook.misc
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.cl-pro
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.cl-pro error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.cl-pro
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.devel error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.git
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.git error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.comp.version-control.git
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.help
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.help error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.help
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.devel
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.devel error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org.gmane.emacs.jdee.devel
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org
nndraft:marks.news.gmane.org error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gmane.org
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gwene.org.gwene.org.slashdot
nndraft:marks.news.gwene.org.gwene.org.slashdot error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gwene.org.gwene.org.slashdot
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gwene.org
nndraft:marks.news.gwene.org error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.gwene.org
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.eternal-september.org.comp.lang.lisp
nndraft:marks.news.eternal-september.org.comp.lang.lisp error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.eternal-september.org.comp.lang.lisp
Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.eternal-september.org
nndraft:marks.news.eternal-september.org error: Can't select group (no such directory): marks.news.eternal-september.org

basically, one error for each subscribed newsgroup.

mail-user-agent
==> gnus-user-agent
send-mail-function
==> smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-smtp-service
==> 587
smtpmail-smtp-server
==> "smtp.gmail.com"

Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 24.0.94.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2012-02-29 on t520sds
200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)

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