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Subject: Make Gnus emit more errors for unknown servers?
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I think if Gnus finds a group name where no server exists, it just
creates a server on the fly.  So for example, if people add

    (nnml "" (nnml-directory "/tmp/foo"))

to gnus-secondary-select-methods, then create some groups in that
server, then accidentally delete that entry from
gnus-secondary-select-methods, Gnus will create a (nnml "") server on
the fly, and then it won't be able to open the groups.

I think it is better to emit an error message in such a case.

(Hm.  Though it is not clear how people are supposed to add the
missing server to the server buffer in such a case -- they can't
start Gnus.  Hm.  Ideas?)

kai
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