Re: Select methods versus Server buffer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:

> Also, can somebody explain the relationship between the properties of a
> server in the Server buffer and what gets saved into .newsrc.eld?
> Before I looked at .newsrc.eld, I thought that server information
> (i.e., the name and properties like nnimap-address) was stored in a
> server section.  And each group had a pointer to the name of the server
> it came from.  If a group had parameters intended to override the
> servers settings, they were stored with the group too.
>
> But it seems more like all of the server information is stored with each
> group in .newsrc.eld and the server buffer is the list of unique servers
> that show up in groups defined in .newsrc.eld.

Well, it kinda depends on how the groups were subscribed.  If they
came from a "well-defined" server, the select method will usually be
a string that is the name of the server.  If not, the select method
will be a complete select method, warts and all...

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