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>>>>> "Juri" == Juri Pakaste <cyteen@avalon.icon.fi> writes:

 Juri> Is there a way to tell sgnus to use just the secondary select
 Juri> method when starting up and when fetching new articles? The
 Juri> primary method is nntp, which isn't always available (I use
 Juri> PPP) and when it is, it isn't exactly fast over the 16800
 Juri> link. But AFAIK I always have to use it when I want to read
 Juri> mail, as I use nnml as the secondary select method.

I just define an elisp function which set `nnml' as the primary method 
and use a different startup file as follow:

(defun gm ()
   "Use `GNUS' to read mail."
   (interactive)
   (setq gnus-startup-file "~/gnus-startup/private"
	 gnus-select-method
	 '(nnml "private"
		(nnml-directory "~/Mail")
		(nnml-active-file "~/Mail/active")
		(nnml-newsgroups-file "~/Mail/.group-description")
		(nnml-get-new-mail t)
		;;(nnml-nov-is-evil nil)
		;;(nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook )
		))
   (gnus))

to read mail, of course that I also define some other functons to read
news from different nntp servers. I am using PPP too.

-- 
Ching-Mo Chang <chang@wsu.edu> <chang@theta.math.wsu.edu>