Re: Using nnimap as my primary select method.

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

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of setting up a special invocation of XEmacs/Gnus with
> nnimap as the primary select method.  Before I do this, do any of you
> know of any "gotchas" about using nnimap in this way?

"nnimap:group.name" won't match the group name; "group.name" will.  So
any such existing config stuff will have to be adapted.  If what you
really want is to get rid of your current primary select method, you
could set it to be a dummy.  I wrote a dummy backend for this purpose,
nnnil, available at <URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./gnus/>.

Should I add this to Gnus?  Maybe with an easier-to-read name, like
"nnempty" or something?

Of course, this is just a workaraound that we can abandon when Gnus no
longer has a notion of a "primary" select method. :)


paul