From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54497 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Help With Select Method Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:30:50 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76k76qfztj.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067365879 6580 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 18:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3038@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 28 19:31:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEYcc-0007XY-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:31:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEYcS-0008QS-00; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:31:04 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEYcN-0008QN-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:30:59 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273F43A0060 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:30:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9SIUu1e025359; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:30:57 +0100 Original-To: Ian Dobbie Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031028:ian.dobbie@nuigalway.ie:581ff9f39b75cc52 X-Hashcash: 0:031028:ian.dobbie@nuigalway.ie:581ff9f39b75cc52 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031028:ding@gnus.org:b126c408a34d1e63 X-Hashcash: 0:031028:ding@gnus.org:b126c408a34d1e63 In-Reply-To: (Ian Dobbie's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:39:33 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54497 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54497 Ian Dobbie writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> 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. > > Why is this? I have nnml as my primary method and nntp (which comes > through the firewall via an ssh tunnel) as foreign servers. Is there > anything I am missing out on by this config? There shouldn't be any problems, but you need to remember which server is primary and which are secondary when specifying fully qualified group names, and stuff. If everything is on the secondary level, you can forget about the differences, and always type nnfoo+bar:baz.