From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38499 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: Strange server names confusion Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 23:59:07 +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 1035174352 22724 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21474 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2001 21:59:35 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 21:59:35 -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 XAA17361 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:59:08 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id XAA26178; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:59:07 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 863722097; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:59:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 01 Sep 2001 21:39:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38499 Simon Josefsson writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > >> On my IMAP groups, G e says "nnimap:", and on my nnml groups, it says >> "nnml:". nnimap and nnml are secondary select methods in my setup. >> >> But on my foreign nntp groups, G e says "quimby" and "dfn", >> respectively, rather than "nntp:quimby" and "nntp:dfn" which I'd >> expect. > > Foreign groups are identified by the name of the server (car of each > entry in `gnus-server-alist'). And secondary groups are identified in some other way? Does this mean I can have two secondary servers with the same name (as long as the backend is different), but not two foreign servers with the same name? > `gnus-server-to-method' etc should understand nntp:quimby even if > "quimby" is the name of a foreign nntp server though. Well, I tried to enter "nntp:quimby" (with quotes) after `G e' on the group, then I tried to enter the group -- no dice. But with "quimby" (with quotes), it worked. > Compare the discussion about the "archive" server recently, this is > the same thing. The "archive" server looks like a foreign server. I didn't understand that discussion, either ;-nature