group and topic parameters (was: nnimap against Cyrus imapd just stopped working)

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

On Thu, Jul 11 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

>> - Setting topic parameters via `gnus-parameters'. [...]

> Hm.  If you find somebody to write it :-)

That would be nice to have. IMHO having a variable for group
parameters, but none for topic parameters is a somehow inconsistent.

>> - Extracting previously use group parameters from ~/.newsrc.eld to a
>>   (temporary) variable, from where I can pick some values and put them
>>   into `gnus-parameters'.
>
> You can just do `G p' on a group and use copy and paste, no?

No problem for a few groups. But for many groups? Stepping thru all
groups collecting the parameters should be done by a program not by
humans. ;-) Or as in the original question: Steinar had to kill a
bunch of groups (and recreate them later). It would be nice not to
lose all parameters. But in fact this is not too important. A
workaround is to look at the ~/.newsrc.eld file and collect the
parameters from there.

Bye, Reiner.
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