From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87293 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: two server which I did not add Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:24:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87twcqix0u.fsf@yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475684608 3998 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2016 16:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 16:23:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35513@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 05 18:23:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1broyI-0006Qr-6B for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:23:06 +0200 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 1broxR-0004cp-FO; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1broxO-0004cE-P2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1broxN-0004iC-Ou for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:22:10 -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 1broxM-00014W-BQ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:22:08 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1broxD-00070G-8r for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:21:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:OmHpLLQkIPAFbLzgqmnPLfmVL9g= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87293 Archived-At: Rainer M Krug writes: > Katsumi Yamaoka 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.