Two NNTP servers in different modes

Two NNTP servers in different modes

[Samuel Tardieu]

My situation is the following:

  - My officiel NNTP server is "news.enst.fr". Our newsfeed is
    "news2.eunet.fr", which is often late and unreliable.
  - An alternate NNTP server is "news.ext.jussieu.fr" which has much
    more groups and runs faster, but doesn't accept any "POST".

I would want to set "news.ext.jussieu.fr" (the good one) as my default
NNTP server *but* I want the news I post to go through "news.enst.fr"
(the slow one). To make this story short, I want to read my news from
a server and post on another one.

Is there a simple way of setting things like this with September Gnus ?

  Sam
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"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
                                                       Charles Baudelaire

Re: Two NNTP servers in different modes

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> writes:

> I would want to set "news.ext.jussieu.fr" (the good one) as my default
> NNTP server *but* I want the news I post to go through "news.enst.fr"
> (the slow one). To make this story short, I want to read my news from
> a server and post on another one.
> 
> Is there a simple way of setting things like this with September Gnus ?

Just set `gnus-post-method' to an nntp method pointing to
"news.enst.fr". 

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Re: Two NNTP servers in different modes

[Samuel Tardieu]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> writes:

>> I would want to set "news.ext.jussieu.fr" (the good one) as my
>> default NNTP server *but* I want the news I post to go through
>> "news.enst.fr" (the slow one). To make this story short, I want to
>> read my news from a server and post on another one.
>> 
>> Is there a simple way of setting things like this with September
>> Gnus ?

Lars> Just set `gnus-post-method' to an nntp method pointing to
Lars> "news.enst.fr".
 
Hmmm... This works when posting from within a group, not when pressing
`a' in the *Group* buffer (gnus-newsgroup-name seems to be nil so
gnus-post-method is called with nil as group name and it returns
gnus-select-method, even if gnus-post-method is set).

Maybe the (cond ...) in gnus-msg.el (gnus-post-method) should have:

  ((null group-method) (or gnus-post-method gnus-select-method))

instead of

  ((null group-method) gnus-select-method)

?

  Sam
--
"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
                                                       Charles Baudelaire