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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > I don't really know, but my guess is that the native server and the
> > secondary servers are not editable, but foreign servers are.  And I
> > think the servers that are automatically created (nndraft comes to
> > mind) are also uneditable.
> > 
> > Who knows the real story?
> 
> That's the real story.  :-)

What is a good definition of a foreign server then?

Is it just one that you've created in any backend as long as it is not
listed in .gnus as a secondary server?  Or in the select methods?

I've created an nnml server by editing server buffer and done nothing
else in any init or *.el files by hand.  That server remains
editable. So is it a "foreign" server?