From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87759 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quick survey of gnus-server-alist Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:27:04 -0700 Message-ID: <87lgk8a0br.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d15o3y36.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508344232 12239 195.159.176.226 (18 Oct 2017 16:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35973@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 18 18:30:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.34]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rEa-0001oy-93 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:30:20 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 9904b587-b421-11e7-8b7f-b499baa2b07a; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rDP-00067Y-9e; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rDL-00066z-N2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rDK-0004YG-Lo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rDJ-00077Z-Dc for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e4rCz-0000CR-Tb for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:28:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vzb6qa5qgZxfK+EDVkt2Fb77Uys= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87759 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > On Sun, Oct 15 2017,Eric Abrahamsen 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! >> >> Eric >> >> >> > > Mine's got some funny stuff.... > > gnus-server-alist is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’. > > Its value is (("archive" nnfolder "archive" > (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") > (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") > (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) > (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))) Looks normal to me! Thanks.