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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Help With Select Method
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu3cdd8e3v.fsf@extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ad7l7hfl.fsf@maui.hanak.hu> (David Hanak's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:03:26 +0100")

David Hanak <dhanak@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jake Colman wrote:
>
>> Is there a better way to do this?  How can I configure things if I want my
>> primary to be an IMAP server and to not have a news server?
>
> It is not mandatory to have an nntp server declared as a primary select
> method.  I, for one, have nnml as my primary select method, an nnmaildir as
> my only secondary select method, and several nntp servers configured as
> foreign servers (i.e., not appearing in .gnus, just added to the list of
> servers).
>
> So try:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method 
>         '(nnimap "hamilton"
>                  (nnimap-list-pattern "*")
>                  (nnimap-expunge-on-close always)
>                  ))
>
> It should work fine.

But don't forget to C-k all existing nnimap groups before the move,
otherwise there will be trouble.  Generally, I think it is better to
use a nnil primary server, and have all servers as secondary.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-28 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-27 15:46 Jake Colman
2003-10-28  0:28 ` Danny Siu
2003-10-28 11:03 ` David Hanak
2003-10-28 17:29   ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-10-27 17:39     ` Ian Dobbie
2003-10-28 18:30       ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-28 18:01     ` Christopher Tessone
2003-10-28 18:28       ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-28 19:03         ` Josh Huber
2003-10-28 19:08         ` Jake Colman
2003-10-30  9:37         ` David Hanak
2003-10-30 11:08           ` Simon Josefsson

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