Re: Make Gnus emit more errors for unknown servers?

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Let's say you have the (nnml "" (...)) server in your secondary select
> methods.  Your groups will put the "nnml:" server in the select method
> slot, and everything works fine.  Then the user removes that server
> from the secondary select methods, and Gnus then knows nothing about
> how to select that group.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if that couldn't happen?  If Gnus were to store
> the server in `gnus-server-alist' (or some other variable), then the
> user could remove anything from the list of secondary servers, and
> nothing would break.

You're talking about defending against modifying
gnus-secondary-select-methods within a Gnus session, right?  I think
Kai is talking about editing the setting between sessions.  The next
time you start Gnus, and Gnus finds a group whose server is missing,
it should not be automatically created, because Gnus doesn't have
enough information to do it correctly.

Or do you mean that secondary servers should be stored in .newsrc.eld
just in case they go missing?  In that case, when would a server ever
be removed from there?


paul