From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55508 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Select methods versus Server buffer Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:58:43 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073080819 26237 80.91.224.253 (2 Jan 2004 22:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 22:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4048@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 02 23:00:15 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 1AcXL5-0001F2-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:00:15 +0100 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 1AcXKy-0005zq-00; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:00:08 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AcXKp-0005zR-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:59:59 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B003A0026 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:59:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcXKo-0005nu-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:59:58 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcXJg-0005mt-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:58:48 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcXJg-0006l3-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:58:48 +0100 Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Marke B 03_: "Bus - Clapping" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEXv7e1mHABWDwBhGQBe FQBUDABXEQBLQ2EigKAwAAACKklEQVR4nMWTu47bMBBF2aUWCER1BiZTExTWfUjIPQFueoY7rgU/ 5vdzh5KTBfIBoa3CPL7zvDJGzHG+yKfzMP/1TDiz/HvMt2kcxmPj64SYTa2Vec0rc88p4pPisuBR UMgzK4gAcYkxL0tUQMQeD+ec8EWkJacJgEppRN4jYDruc7IApRaEahAcABFz0FA78JojRhssqlsA SqnkCLGyAlS9F6yhXCUk6SNxOAhAI1eabwrQ2N4uuKHmCkrFs/4ByD4ZR6z9odw9R9gJFOUDoJE/ dVWEQxIMu1oY8bj3dCTHODUHoQ2EK73nJS1HEhuMJ1RLxRXfX41AMUGB++q9873HHF/lAhQqrWHo /oRBvfqYVNEw9MYYLhLY8Akw6ZZQcop//6+h0APuya/p8z2ARyBu7h2hjkDbANigCoig2IEAjAZ1 IthTVhCm2yy4V1BIh65WGApRATo01alkrBwgwpXb6BCrRTDWDe7lDmBDMFgTFD+owSTRKghWzapm QOsY/IgVg5UgNzjS0G5FyNS7mIqcRaA2fpgXBjrG/lXfgfvadYNQ+IK5w8spnOX2Js/MpiloVKof pk5niRmAsCgs3cND7zzMDrDIc3UYiau6XqduP+d8ll9QUMUGoUBpdJVpkzDPA8gMM+AWecr1Lpfx WvZVtnkzI7GDh77fZZbLNu/gp8FktceqVU0phYuCh93MiTW9to8Zr75f5fkhj1qNGnpIYCO/MmrA wc/fFhr1HUEYin4AAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.1004 (Gnus v5.10.4) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2QHivbZ0x+GXRHZef0dVSZ485z0= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55508 Mark Plaksin 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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen