On 15 jui 2003, NAGY Andras uttered the following:

>  It appears that the list of agentized servers is stored in
>  News/agent/lib/servers as well as in the variable
>  gnus-agent-covered-methods in .newsrc.eld.  Why this redundancy?
>  
>  Also, the actual parameters for the agentized servers
>  (e.g. nntp-port-number et al), which are set in .gnus, are also
>  stored in the variable gnus-agent-covered-methods in .newsrc.eld (and
>  sometimes in lib/servers too).  Again, why this redundancy?

Can't help you on that.
  
>  If something is redundant, one day it will get inconsistent.  It
>  happened to me that after changing a parameter (irrelevant to the
>  server's identity) of a server in .gnus, it resulted in a new entry
>  for the same server with the new configuration in lib/servers, in
>  addition to the previous configuration.
>  
>  What is the `outgoing counterpart' of the `:plugged t' setting in
>  mail source specifiers?  I.e. how can Gnus be configured to send mail
>  even if in unplugged state (my MTA does queuing, so Gnus doesn't have
>  to) ?

I think not every people use a local smtp server. For my part, I am
using one from my network but on a different machine than the one
running Gnus. So it is quite usefull to be able to queue mails when I
am not connected on my network (e.g: in the train).

Concerning the way to send mail even if Gnus is unplugged, you just
need to retrieve the mail in the archive (less than 1 week) and you
will find a patch to achieve your goal.

>  regards,
>  Andras

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