From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Quick survey of gnus-server-alist
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:50:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <krpqx3tvywtwxb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d15o3y36.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On Sun, Oct 15 2017,Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how all the variables that hold Gnus' servers
> actually work. `gnus-server-alist' looks like it's meant to be a fairly
> authoritative list, but in my case it has never held anything but the
> archive server.
>
> If anyone wants to take twenty seconds and satisfy my curiosity -- does
> that variable hold anything else for you? Anything but the archive
> server?
>
> It looks like `gnus-server-method-cache' ends up actually holding the
> information that would also have gone in `gnus-server-alist'.
>
> Anyway, I hope some of you will humor me!
>
> Eric
>
>
>
Mine's got some funny stuff....
gnus-server-alist is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’.
Its value is (("archive" nnfolder "archive"
(nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive")
(nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
(nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
(nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
sivaram
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-15 21:22 Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-16 5:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-16 15:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 6:32 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-10-17 14:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-16 7:06 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-16 7:34 ` Julien Danjou
2017-10-16 12:49 ` Dan Christensen
2017-10-16 13:12 ` Dave Marquardt
2017-10-17 16:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-18 12:54 ` Dave Marquardt
2017-10-16 14:10 ` Peter Davis
2017-10-16 14:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-10-16 14:29 ` Norman Walsh
2017-10-16 15:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-17 17:00 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-10-17 17:54 ` Steinar Bang
2017-10-17 19:34 ` Tim Landscheidt
2017-10-17 20:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-18 13:20 ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]
2017-10-18 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-19 12:08 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2017-10-20 19:02 ` Michael Sperber
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