From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29390 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] multiple nnimap server entries in 5.8.4 Date: 04 Mar 2000 23:07:53 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166068 2480 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C428D051E for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:12:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB11345; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:10:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 04 Mar 2000 16:09:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17175 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:09:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1FDD051E for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:09:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id XAA29199; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 23:07:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id XAA25913; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 23:07:53 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) id XAA23334; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 23:07:53 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: Steinar Bang In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "04 Mar 2000 21:51:32 +0100" Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29390 Steinar Bang writes: > What's the primary server here? The NNTP server? Or is there such a > beast as a primary IMAP server? The value of gnus-select-method names the `primary' or `native' server. The servers enumerated in gnus-secondary-select-methods are `secondary', whereas all other servers are `foreign'. (Well, there are servers that Gnus automatically creates, such as the nndraft server -- these are not foreign.) Any backend can be used for any server. Your primary server could be nntp, nnml, nnimap, nnfolder, even nndoc I guess. Same for the others. I don't know what is the difference between secondary and foreign servers, except that the secondary ones are in gnus-secondary-select-methods. Maybe it would be possible to do without them? kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory