From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26165 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tibor Simko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ahh... it's the problem noted a few months back Date: 04 Nov 1999 09:28:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163426 17977 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:23:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA06698 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 03:30:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB32628; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:30:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Nov 1999 02:30:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA00199 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:30:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from smtp1.cern.ch (smtp1.cern.ch [137.138.128.38]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA06690 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 03:30:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sundh08.cern.ch (sundh08.cern.ch [137.138.117.59]) by smtp1.cern.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22232 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:28:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from simko@localhost) by sundh08.cern.ch (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10009; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:28:57 +0100 (MET) Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Attribution: TS In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "03 Nov 1999 12:35:17 -0500" Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sclp3.sclp.com id DAA06698 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26165 >>>>> "DSG" == David S Goldberg writes: DSG> I do notice that even for nnimap, all groups subscribed at a DSG> particular level get checked (e.g. I see the "updating info DSG> for ..." message, even for groups that never get mails split DSG> to them). >>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann writes: KG> I used to have `updating info for...' as well, but I managed KG> to make it show `checking mailbox ...' by fiddling with the KG> select method. And with the level, I think. [...] Simon KG> knows more, for sure. Simon has suggested this workaround: >>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson writes: SJ> This turned out to be due to Gnus believing the method was SJ> something like SJ> SJ> (nnimap "") SJ> SJ> when you did have SJ> SJ> (nnimap "" (nnimap-address "foo")) SJ> SJ> in your `gnus-secondary-select-method'. SJ> SJ> As a workaround, edit the group info with `G E' in the group SJ> menu to turn the first method into the latter. Worked fine for me, but only for `g'. It did not work for `2 g' style of getting new email. Simon said something like that it is a "feature" difficult to get rid of, unfortunately. cheers, -TS