From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46038 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: problem with gnus-no-server Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:32:15 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028658827 17032 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2002 18:33:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:33:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17c99O-0004Qb-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 20:33:46 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17c98M-0004G0-00; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:33:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA23239 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:32:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 22592 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2002 18:32:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22587 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2002 18:32:20 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Aug 2002 18:32:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27613 invoked by uid 500); 6 Aug 2002 18:32:38 -0000 Original-To: Mark Thomas In-Reply-To: (Mark Thomas's message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:54:48 -0400") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Mark Thomas , ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46038 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46038 Mark Thomas wrote: > When I changed the > "nnml:" > back to > (nnml "") > I was able to use gnus-no-server. I guess that's a bug. > It appears that all the new method-backend pairs are being written as > "method:backend" > instead of > (method "backend") Actually, the first part is the backend, and the second part is the "server address". > I supposed this is the New And Improved way? What should my nnml > entries look like? What about nndir entries, which currently look > like > (nndir "e:/mthomas/mail/CMU/" (nndir-directory "e:/mthomas/mail/CMU")) If this select method already appears in gnus-secondary-select-methods or was defined in the *Server* buffer as a foreign server, then "nndir:e:/mthomas/mail/CMU/" should work. The point is that only the identifying information is copied into all the references to the server; the attributes of the server that you might want to change from time to time are stored in only one place, so you don't have to worry about keeping multiple copies in sync. paul