Re: Still pounding nnimap and odd gmail behavior

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Harry Putnam writes:

> Alberto Luaces writes:
>
>> Harry Putnam writes:
>>
>>> Sorry to keep pounding on this same subject by being sneaky and
>>> slipping the same question with different subject.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Sorry but I have to insist: what is the value of your gnus-select-method
>> variable? Can you change to nnnil to see if it makes a difference?
>
> Very sorry, I posted another 'secondary select' (nnml) instead of your
> requested 'select method'.  Didn't read closely enough. Here it is.:
>
>    (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
>
> Won't setting that to nnnil raise heck with my nntp groups?
>
> I'm reluctant to try that without setting up a full sandbox.
> Something that would take a bit of time, unless you can confirm that
> setting nnnil will not slaughter my existing setup. 
>
> Not asking for a promise or guarantee...just confirmation that you've
> done this when your setup contained many nntp groups and had been
> using 'nntp' as the value of gnus-select-method for years.
>

Ok, it was just for making sure that the main select method was not set
to anything strange, or another imap server.  In the rest of the thread,
it seems most likely that the problem is in your .authinfo definition,
so I wouldn't try to change gnus-select-method unless it was the very
last resource...

-- 
Alberto