From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Quick survey of gnus-server-alist
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:32:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877evtecsa.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bml5sh50.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to figure out how all the variables that hold Gnus' servers
>> actually work. `gnus-server-alist' looks like it's meant to be a fairly
>> authoritative list, but in my case it has never held anything but the
>> archive server.
>
>> If anyone wants to take twenty seconds and satisfy my curiosity -- does
>> that variable hold anything else for you? Anything but the archive
>> server?
>
>> It looks like `gnus-server-method-cache' ends up actually holding the
>> information that would also have gone in `gnus-server-alist'.
>
>> Anyway, I hope some of you will humor me!
>
> | ELISP> gnus-server-alist
> | (("archive" nnfolder "archive"
> | (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive")
> | (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
> | (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
> | (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))
> | ("nntp.perl.org" nntp "nntp.perl.org")
> | ("news.fernuni-hagen.de" nntp "news.fernuni-hagen.de")
> | ("news.individual.de" nntp "news.individual.de")
> | ("news.gnus.org" nntp "news.gnus.org")
> | ("news.gmane.org" nntp "news.gmane.org"))
>
> | ELISP> gnus-server-method-cache
> | (("nnml:private" nnml "private")
> | ("news.gnus.org" nntp "news.gnus.org")
> | ("nntp.perl.org" nntp "nntp.perl.org")
> | ("native" nnml "private")
> | ("news.individual.de" nntp "news.individual.de")
> | ("news.gmane.org" nntp "news.gmane.org")
> | ("archive" nnfolder "archive"
> | (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive")
> | (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
> | (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
> | (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
>
> | ELISP>
>
> Tim
Okay, thanks to you all! I think that's enough data points :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-15 21:22 Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-16 5:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-16 15:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 6:32 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-17 14:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-16 7:06 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-16 7:34 ` Julien Danjou
2017-10-16 12:49 ` Dan Christensen
2017-10-16 13:12 ` Dave Marquardt
2017-10-17 16:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-18 12:54 ` Dave Marquardt
2017-10-16 14:10 ` Peter Davis
2017-10-16 14:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-10-16 14:29 ` Norman Walsh
2017-10-16 15:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 17:00 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-10-17 17:54 ` Steinar Bang
2017-10-17 19:34 ` Tim Landscheidt
2017-10-17 20:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-10-18 13:20 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2017-10-18 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-19 12:08 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2017-10-20 19:02 ` Michael Sperber
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