Re: Server variables in ~/News/agent/lib/servers

["Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Hm, my servers file looks like:
>
> ("nntp:quimby.gnus.org" "nntp:news.uslinuxtraining.com" "nnimap:yxa" nil)
>
> where did the nil come from?

It's your primary select method. It's collapsed to nil by 
gnus-method-simplify. Try removing it from agent and you'll see that
the nil disappears. 

I don't know why gnus-method-simplify does this. It caused a small
problem since gnus-server-get-method doesn't expand the nil. That's
the reason for the (or m "native") hack.

>  Maybe the code should fall back to using
> fully qualified servers if it cannot be "collapsed" into a smaller
> one.  I think the nil entry was a server that no longer exists, or a
> server that still exists but used different parameters, or something
> like that.

gnus-method-simplify will do this already. You'll get a complete entry
like before if you agentize a foreign server.


Bjørn
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