Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Eric writes:

> Okay, that's useful information. Do you have `gnus-save-newsrc-file' set
> to t, and is this group saved in that file? If so, is the group name
> encoded or decoded?

,----[ C-h v gnus-save-newsrc-file RET ]
| gnus-save-newsrc-file is a variable defined in ‘gnus-start.el’.
| Its value is t
| 
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means that Gnus will save the ‘.newsrc’ file.
| Gnus always saves its own startup file, which is called
| ".newsrc.eld".  The file called ".newsrc" is in a format that can
| be readily understood by other newsreaders.  If you don’t plan on
| using other newsreaders, set this variable to nil to save some time on
| exit.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

I didn't know I had that set to t, but I have.

The file is empty, though?!

  $ ls -l .newsrc
  -rw-r--r-- 1 asjo asjo 0 May 30  2015 .newsrc

> (I'm trying to test with feedbase.org but Gnus never succeeds in
> connecting to it).

(Are you using nntps? There's no nntp-support on feedbase.org, only
nntps. I'm using this in my gnus-secondary-select-methods:

        (nntp "fb"
              (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) ; feedbase does not do STARTTLS (yet?)
              (nntp-port-number 563) ; nntps
              (nntp-address "feedbase.org"))

Come to think of it, Feedbase might be doing things wrong with regards
to encoding, as I didn't give it any thought.

I hope I haven't sent you out on a wild goose chase here.)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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