From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58112 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David S Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Foreign server info? Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089815467 21378 80.91.224.253 (14 Jul 2004 14:31:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6653@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 14 16:30:55 2004 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 1Bkkmd-0006pw-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:30:55 +0200 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 1BkkmM-0006Fx-00; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BkkmF-0006Fr-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BkkmE-0002ax-Gm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3BC3A003C for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:30:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bkkm6-0001ij-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from webproxy2x.mitre.org ([192.160.51.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from david.goldberg6 by webproxy2x.mitre.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:30:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 192.160.51.71 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58112 David S Goldberg verizon.net> writes: > > >>>>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:14:07 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka jpl.org> said: > > > If you create a new server by copying of it using the `c' > > command, you will be able to edit it. It is stored in the > > gnus-server-alist variable and saved in the .newsrc.eld file. > > I created it using the `a' command in the server buffer. Perhaps I > should just `c' the existing one and work with the copy. But it still > seems kind of magical that gnus seems to know the information without > having stored it anywhere > > Thanks, Just to close the case. It turns out that there is some magic, after all, but it was living in the particular DNS server I was hitting. Looking a bit deeper, I found that the information stored in .newsrc.eld, which looks like nnimap:server will work provided that "server" can be resolved and everything else is default. In my case, I thought that shouldn't work because the host I specified for server is actually in a DNS subdomain and according to most of the DNS servers at work, the name server.foo.org doesn't resolve. However it turns out I got lucky. The DNS server I was pointed to by DHCP happened to be the same one that manages the subdomain containing the mail server and for some reason was willing to search both zones, thus allowing it to resolve. I discovered this by accident when it (properly) didn't work after plugging my lap top into a different subnet and getting a different DNS server. I've added the server to secondary select methods so it works properly now. Thanks, -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net