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Amos Gouaux <amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu> writes:

> Perhaps there's a way to do this and I just haven't stumbled onto it
> yet, but how do you update or alter a server listed in
> gnus-secondary-select-methods?  I wanted to alter the settings for
> an IMAP server I'm using, and ran into much difficulty.  At the time
> I guessed it was because things are so hardcoded in the .newsrsc.eld.

Quit gnus, update gnus-secondary-select-method and search'n'replace
your .newsrc.eld. :-(   You could also C-k the groups, make the change,
restart gnus, and resubscribe to them.

Otherwise (I think) Gnus will create a new ephemeral server a'la
nnimap+yourserver+yourmailbox because it didn't find the .newsrc.eld
server definition in g-s-m or g-s-s-m, and there will be one network
connection for each IMAP group.  But I've never experienced this with
nntp or nnmail-backends, I wonder why?