Help: Multiple News servers.

Help: Multiple News servers.

[Shane Holder]

I now have reason to use the multiple server stuff in gnus (jeez this
is a cool news reader).  Here's my situation.

I have a standard nntp server that I can telnet to from the machine I
run gnus on, no problems there.

I also have several other news servers that are behind a firewall, and
I have an account on that firewall, so I run proxy servers going to
the multiple newsservers, and listen on different port numbers, for my
incoming connection from my gnus machine.  Something like.

<gumby> -> <pokey> <- Standard nntp server
     \
      \ 
        -> <Mr_T> -> <cindy>  <- nntp server behind firewall (Mr_T)
               \
                \
	          -> <rodman>  <- nntp server behind firewall (Mr_T)

gumby is where gnus is run.
Mr_T listens on 8888, and redirects to cindy:119.
Mr_T listens on 8889, and redirects to rodman:119.

The first thing I ran across was gnus-group-browse-foreign-server, but
it didn't seem to want to allow me to specify a port.

The next thing I found was the Server edit buffer, and after a few
attempts, I was able to connect to cindy, and rodman, and get a list
of groups to subscribe to.  Both servers are set up as follows with
differing port numbers.

   (nntp "Mr_T" (nntp-port-number 8888))

I'd rather use the secondary select method for these other servers,
but I can't figure out how to get a list of news groups, the news
group stuff seems to only apply to gnus-select-method.

So, how can I list groups on these other two servers without using the
server buffer (it gives all groups, and doesn't filter the ones to
which I'm already subscribed).

I also had trouble posting to groups subscribed to with the
browse-server stuff, I think it tried to post to the
gnus-select-method server, and not the one I had browsed, and the
group doesn't exist on the primary server.

Thanks,
Shane

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Re: Help: Multiple News servers.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Shane Holder <holder@convex.com> writes:

> The next thing I found was the Server edit buffer, and after a few
> attempts, I was able to connect to cindy, and rodman, and get a list
> of groups to subscribe to.  Both servers are set up as follows with
> differing port numbers.
> 
>    (nntp "Mr_T" (nntp-port-number 8888))
> 
> I'd rather use the secondary select method for these other servers,
> but I can't figure out how to get a list of news groups, the news
> group stuff seems to only apply to gnus-select-method.

Well, this all depends a bit on what your `gnus-read-active-file' and
`gnus-check-new-newsgroups' variables are.  If `gnus-read-active-file'
is t, then you can just plonk your virtual servers into
`gnus-seconary-select-methods' and Gnus will subscribe you (or not) to
all new groups from these servers.

If `gnus-read-active-file' is nil or `some', then you can set
`gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to a list of select methods to query for
new groups.

> I also had trouble posting to groups subscribed to with the
> browse-server stuff, I think it tried to post to the
> gnus-select-method server, and not the one I had browsed, and the
> group doesn't exist on the primary server.

Use `C-u C-c C-c' when posting to post with the same server as you
read the group from.

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