From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31786 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (provide 'nnmaildir) Date: 15 Jul 2000 03:21:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20000715005142.7982.qmail@multivac.student.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168157 16051 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB0FD051E for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAC14654; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:22:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:20:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02643 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:20:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from vic20.blipp.com (unknown [195.84.94.187]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2F3D051E for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vic20.blipp.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e6F1L3616979; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 03:21:03 +0200 Original-To: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) In-Reply-To: prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:51:42 -0400 (EDT)" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Original-Lines: 45 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31786 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31786 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > > > So... what conditions are article numbers supposed to satisfy? > > > > They must be a positive elisp integer, and article numbers should be > > persistant between gnus sessions. > > So an article number for a particluar message must be constant for the > life of that message... after a message expires, can its article > number be reused? My experiments indicate that nothing breaks > violently, but Gnus remembers the readness of the article even after > it expires, so a new article using the same number won't show up as > new. :( Yup. Don't forget about the cache and the agent, they won't like two articles having the same number. So we have that Gnus article numbers should be monotonously increasing, contigious and preferably start at 1. > > > What about nnoo-push-server? > > > > I don't think you should use it. > > What I saw in other backends was that nnoo-change-server was used in > *-open-server, and nnoo-push-server was used everywhere else. Should > I use nnoo-change-server in all cases? Gnus 5.8 doesn't seem to use nnoo-push-server at all, perhaps this has changed. > What about backend functions that don't take a defs argument? How > will they get the proper values of the backend variables for the > current server? Or is *-open-server always called first, if > necessary, to make a server be current before calling another > backend function? I think so, yes. > > > Why does gnus-nov-is-evil exist? > > > > Some NNTP servers are broken wrt NOV. > > So if my non-NNTP backend isn't broken, must I still obey it? nnimap doesn't, but I'm not sure if anything gets hurt by this.