From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61494 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:52:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87irtzhs6x.fsf@ntnu.no> <87y82sp2yw.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134403206 13513 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 16:00:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10026@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 12 17:00:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elq43-0002lb-1T for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:58:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Elq3s-00085O-00; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:58:00 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ElpyS-00085J-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:52:24 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ElpyO-0001T8-Bq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:52:24 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ElpyM-0000DB-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:52:18 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (jas@yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jBCFqD1B024128 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:52:16 +0100 Original-To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:051212:ding@gnus.org::kHto7tWfg+/CgitQ:14OY X-Hashcash: 1:21:051212:dmmcf@uiuc.edu::uYvPNqg4yBtTeDJH:9mI/ In-Reply-To: <87y82sp2yw.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> (D. Michael McFarland's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:22:47 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61494 Archived-At: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> Historically, the reason for the "update info" message was that your >> groups' server method (type `G e' on the group in the *Group* buffer) >> said (nnimap "foo") rather than "nnimap:foo". Changing the former >> into to the latter would solve the problem. > > Is there a way to do this in .gnus, perhaps in the server definition? Type `G e' on a group and change it. The server definition in .gnus will likely read (nnimap "foo" (nnimap-server ...) ...) and that is fine. It is only the short form (nnimap "foo") that is used in internal data structures that is problematic.