From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9264 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting/setting group parameters/info from backends. Date: 02 Jan 1997 16:18:38 +0100 Sender: larsi@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149314 17382 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA28157 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:18:33 -0800 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@ppp16.larris.ifi.uio.no [129.240.68.116]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:03:59 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id QAA00442; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:18:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu's message of 29 Dec 1996 06:27:18 -0500 Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.77/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ So--what I'd like to find is some method for a back-end to ask for > and/or manipulate the group info at any point it wants to. > Specifically, if that's a problem, I need access to read group-info > -before- Gnus does an nnimap-request-group, because I need to have > that number to calculate the results. Why do you need to store that information in the group info? Most other backends store information they need in separate files. I realize that this may be a pain to do with IMAP, since that would make things much less portable, but can't you store that in a special folder on the IMAP server or something? (I know nothing about IMAP, so just bonk me on the head if I'm raving here...) > I'm not sure exactly how this should work. When a back-end asks for > information, it somehow has to identify exactly the group it's asking > for. What if two servers on one backend have the same group name? The nntp backend just has `nntp-current-group' that says what the current group is. The nnoo stuff will switch between various virtual servers for you, so that's no problem. > Can you have multiple servers connecting to one machine? If you want to, I guess. > The list appears to be down for now--but I look forward to input when > it comes back up. Has it been down? Eeek! -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen