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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Well, you can manually change nnir-mail-backend; that's rather easy.
> But there is no user-interface for this, yet.
> 
> You could do (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth X
> gnus-secondary-select-methods)) for various small numbers X if all
> your servers are secondary, as opposed to foreign.

What are you talking about above?  Can you spell it out a bit more?

The nnml server I want to have nnir search is not listed in
gnus-secondary-select-methods by name or number that var says:
gnus-secondary-select-methods's value is 
((nnml ""))

An apparently related var says:
gnus-secondary-servers's value is 
nil

However the server in question is listed in server buffer, an `e'
shows:

(nnml "n2m"
      (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/n2m/")
      (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/n2m/active"))

If I happen to respool messages by nnml backend, gnus prompts me for
which nnml server I want.  I hoped to do something similar with nnir.