From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38313 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: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:28:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174197 21706 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20745 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2001 16:29:06 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Aug 2001 16:29:06 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA18684 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:28:38 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA14494; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:28:38 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 8F08E206B; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:28:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2001 00:50:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38313 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > >> I think it should be "nnfolder:archive", not just "archive"? > > Just "archive". It's the name of the server; not a group spec thing.=20 This is all terribly confusing. I think something should be done about this confusion. Probably, it's best to make things more consistent. Some time ago, there was a discussion about putting a server name in gnus-secondary-select-methods, rather than the select method. The idea was that it is then possible to change the server definition (parameters) without having to change all the groups. Of course, these days, it's not necessary anymore since .newsrc.eld stores "backend:name" style thingies together with a group, rather than just the whole select method. But still, if some pieces of Gnus require me to say "mail" to name a server, and others require me to say "nnml:mail", then I can be pretty sure that the former pieces will get pretty confused if I have both "nnml:mail" and "nnimap:mail". Personally, I've got "nnml:" and "nnimap:". Does that mean if I want one of them to be secondary, I should do (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods "")? And if I do so, which one is then secondary? Both? IMVHO, Gnus should use just two ways to specify servers and/or select methods: the form thingy like (nnml "foo") and the string thingy "nnml:foo". What do you think? kai --=20 Symbol's function definition is void: signature