From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: two server which I did not add
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:24:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twcqix0u.fsf@yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ponfi74e.fsf@krugs.de>
Rainer M Krug writes:
> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:50:50 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>> I have the following two server in gnus, in addition to a
>>> local imap and gmane, which I have no idea where they come
>>> from and if I need them.
>>> ,----
>>>| {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
>>>| {nndraft:} (opened)
>>> `----
>>> My questions are:
>>> 1) how did they get here, are they part of the default setup
>>> of gnus?
>>> 2) what are they used for?
>>> 3) how can I get rid of them if they are not needed (I assume
>>> that nndraft might be useful?)?
>>
>> The nnfolder:archive method will be created when a user uses
>> Gnus for the first time (w/o ~/.newsrc.eld, ~/.gnus.el) for
>> archiving sent messages. See: (info "(gnus)Archived Messages")
>>
>> To remove it, quit Gnus, edit the ~/.newsrc.eld file and delete
>> the ("archive" ...) portion in the (setq gnus-server-alist...)
>> section. Be extremely careful! To turn on the show-paren-mode
>> is recommended.
The archive keeps the messages you have sent. Because my imap
keeps a copy of the sent messages, I do not need a local copy. I
think I removed it just by setting gnus-message-archive-method to
nil.
>> The draft: method is used for handling draft messages to send.
>> I don't know alternative way of it, so never remove it. See:
>> (info "(gnus)Drafts")
>
> Thanks for the info - as they are more or less part of gnus,
> I'll just leave them where they are.
Yes, the draft has messages that you are editing but haven't sent
yet.
Best,
--
Jorge.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-05 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-04 9:50 Rainer M Krug
2016-10-05 0:20 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2016-10-05 7:32 ` Rainer M Krug
2016-10-05 16:24 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo [this message]
2016-10-07 12:35 ` Lynbech Christian
2016-10-11 4:47 ` Snippet formatting (was: two server which I did not add) Arkady Grudzinsky
2016-10-11 5:52 ` Snippet formatting Arkady Grudzinsky
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