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

  > All backends that ask for mail will get mail, if there are any.  This
  > means that the mail backend that's activated first gets most mail, and
  > the others get little mail.
  > 
  > `nn*-get-new-mail' are used to switch this off for the mail backends
  > that really shouldn't be snarfing mail.

Okay, so I go through gnus-select-method and
gnus-secondary-select-methods in order, and the first backend which
groks respool and where nnchoke-get-new-mail is true, that's the right
one?

kai
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