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From: "Gijs Hillenius" <gijs@hillenius.net>
To: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Finding to which server a group belongs
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:36:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87msjupp6c.fsf@hillenius.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trcxpkcln56e.c60myrhttdj@rf3hum.6nejumj4f.live> (Bob Newell's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:54:56 -1000")

On 25 September 2024 08:54 Bob Newell, wrote:

> Aloha everyone,
>
> I have a problem that puzzles me and I hope there is a simple
> answer that I've overlooked.
>
> Okay, I'm in a group summary buffer, say INBOX.  I poll
> several IMAP servers.  I want to know from which server this
> group was populated.
>
> It's sometime possible to figure it out from the variable
> gnus-summary-buffer, but not always; for instance
> nnimap+fastmail:Archive is easy but INBOX is not, especially
> as several servers provide INBOX with no further clues in the
> name.
>
> So how do I programmatically determine the 'parent' server of
> the group?
>
> Mahalo in advance for any ideas,

I guess you don't want to browse the *server buffer*, but want to see
this instantly. Perhaps you can tweak gnus-group-line-format ?

the default has a (%g%) which will make gnus display the Qualified group
name. It will add nnimap+server to your INBOX.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-26 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-25 18:54 Bob Newell
2024-09-26 12:36 ` Gijs Hillenius [this message]
2024-09-26 20:09 ` Björn Bidar
     [not found] ` <66f5bf81.250a0220.10a0c.7cecSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2024-09-27  4:26   ` Bob Newell
2024-09-27  4:32     ` Adam Sjøgren
2024-09-27 18:18       ` Bob Newell
2024-09-27 18:50         ` Adam Sjøgren
2024-09-27 19:57           ` Bob Newell

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