Re: Foreign server info?

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <m3lli3u71o.fsf@water.tss.usg.edu>
>>>>>	Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> If you create a new server by copying of it using the `c'
>> command, you will be able to edit it.  It is stored in the
>> gnus-server-alist variable and saved in the .newsrc.eld file.

> ...

>> The server made using the B command in the Group buffer is
>> stored in gnus-opened-servers, but not in gnus-server-alist.
>> Only gnus-server-alist is stored in the .newsrc.eld file.  Even
>> so, the "nnimap+server:group" entry in gnus-newsrc-alist should
>> have the server information.  However, if you kill the group,
>> the server information will be lost eternally.

> Do you know the reason for this difference?  I've been confused by this
> before and never understood why there were two places/ways to store group
> information.

Although it is no better than a guess, it may have been sufficient
that each group had server information separately, in the ancient
times where using of foreign servers was not common.  Then, it may
have become the present style by adding various features.

> When we changed the service name for our IMAP server, I ended editing
> .newsrc.eld by hand.  The server name was in so many places that was the only
> fast way to make the change.  I expected it to only be in one place.

Oh, I've just done it!  Please see:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57908

It is required that the server is being stored in gnus-server-alist.
When you edited the server in the Server buffer, the changes you
made will be propagated to all the foreign groups which use the
server.

Using gnus-secondary-select-methods is also a good choice.  In
that case, each foreign group entry in the .newsrc.eld file will
have a tag like "nnimap:server" which points to the full-spec of
the server defined in gnus-secondary-select-methods.
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>