From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60606 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: various independent "mail servers" and the nnml backend Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874qas6qpv.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <4nk6joyw9w.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wtnongzq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <4nzmsix4ms.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87u0iq1ox5.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121803088 12438 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2005 19:58:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9134=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 19 21:58:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuyDP-0005DD-4x for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DuyDO-00072b-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DuyDJ-00072T-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DuyDH-0004N3-Uh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DuyDG-0001Gt-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j6JJv73F023619 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j6JJsWpZ021748; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from all-night-tool.mit.edu (ALL-NIGHT-TOOL.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.70]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j6JJsPnV012747; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87u0iq1ox5.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:11:50 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60606 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60606 Uwe Brauer writes: > I just deleted all my .newsrc newsrc.eld files and restarted gnus, I > add a nnml server, so the corresponding buffer looks like (nnml > "NNML") > > However independent whether I edit the server in order to obtain > something like this > > (nnml "NNML-Archive" (nnml-directory "/home/oub/Mail/NNML-Archive")) Out of curiousity, why do you want two separate nnml backends? Within a single backend, you could create, say, nnml:archive.* and nnml:current.* groups and achieve segregation that way. > Another question: it seems that I can use the secondary select > method in order to select a server, but I could also to it in the > way described above, even for nnimap or nntp servers. Which method > is better? >From what I can tell, your mail backend (the thing that sucks in mail as per mail-sources) must be either gnus-select-method or one of gnus-secondary-select-methods; the backend that gets the "blessed" group names without prefixes is gnus-select-method (or you can set that to nnnil); and otherwise it's fine for all of your other backends to be in neither list and subscribe to individual foreign groups from them. If you have to do some configuration to make the backend work it might be useful to put into gnus-secondary-select-methods too, but otherwise subscribing to nntp+my.news.server:gnu.emacs.gnus seems to work just fine. (I have two separate Gnus setups. The one I'm posting from uses nnnil as gnus-select-method, has nnml in gnus-secondary-select-methods, and I read a couple of foreign nntp groups. On the other one gnus-select-method is nnimap, gnus-secondary-select-methods is nil, and there are a couple of nnrss groups.) --dzm