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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: tip if you have weird extra servers in the Server buffer
Date: 16 Nov 1999 12:05:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilun1selmr3.fsf@badis.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Matt Swift's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:52:28 GMT"

Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I'm not sure exactly how I got things into this state, but I'm
> guessing that I edited the virtual server and added the
> nnml-get-new-mail specification after already having a couple of
> groups.

Yes, that's what causing it.

> To solve the problem, I edited the .newsrc.eld file by hand to make
> the method for each group the same.

You can use `G e' on the groups.

> I'm not submitting this as a bug because I'm guessing that editing a
> v. server's parameters after there are already subscribed groups in it
> is one of those "features" of Gnus that I'm supposed to know better
> than to ever use...  Also, I don't have the energy today to go confirm
> that is the cause.  But this information may help someone seeing
> similar garbage in the Server buffer.

Latest pGnus doesn't store the select method in groups [when creating
new groups, old groups not affected], it simply store a string, such
as "nnfolder:archive", which is derefenced to the actual select method
(from `gnus-secondary-select-methods' or similar) when needed.

Hopefully this should get rid of some of the bogus server problems
several nnimap users have been seeing...


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-11-16 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-16  6:52 Matt Swift
1999-11-16  8:20 ` Matt Swift
1999-11-16 11:05 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
     [not found]   ` <jas@pdc.kth.se>
1999-11-22  3:06     ` group and method variables still a deep mystery to me Matt Swift
1999-11-22 18:41       ` Simon Josefsson

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