From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61171 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Mail first, news second Date: 14 Oct 2005 16:07:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87ll0wfayo.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129298986 12667 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2005 14:09:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9704@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 14 16:09:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQQEV-0003Ae-KJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQQEQ-0001sz-00; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQQE9-0001su-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EQQE7-00071b-Jn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ls405.htnet.hr ([195.29.150.97]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EQQE6-0006QX-00 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ls401.t-com.hr (ls401.t-com.hr [195.29.150.236]) by ls405.htnet.hr (0.0.0/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9EE82Wj030245 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ls401.t-com.hr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ls401.t-com.hr (Qmlai) with ESMTP id 12E9D70002 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:08:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-Sender: hniksic@xemacs.org Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (83-131-0-137.adsl.net.t-com.hr [83.131.0.137]) by ls401.t-com.hr (Qmlai) with ESMTP id C049EA803B for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:08:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1BE4D380404; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:07:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61171 Archived-At: I would like some advice in the following matter. I would like Gnus to be a mail reader first and a news reader second. That is, I would like my primary "select method" to be nnml. I would also like to read news from one or more news servers, which should be "secondary select methods". Since Gnus is a competent mail reader, that seems like a much more logical setup than what was traditionally recommended. I accomplished it by using the following: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "mail") gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "busola"))) However, it doesn't work as well as I'd like it to. For example, there seems to be no easy way to add a group -- I always have to go through the procedure of `G m RET nntp RET busola RET'. It somehow feels suboptimal -- I'd like the news groups to be valid citizens, but it seems that the `gnus-secondary-select-methods' line isn't accomplishing that. What is the best way to make Gnus primarily a mail reader? Has anyone else attempted that?