Re: two server which I did not add

[Lynbech Christian <christian.lynbech@tieto.com>]

Saving messages locally can seem a bit unnecessary but so many things
can go wrong when sending emails so I like to know that I always have
the original email at hand.

An alternative to saving sent messages (whether within gnus or on an
imap server) is to use the BCC field, for instance by setting:

    (setq message-default-mail-headers (format "Bcc: %s\n" user-mail-address))

On top of getting a copy of the sent email (and having it appear inside
the message thread), you get it through the email system which slightly
increases ones confidence in the email having gone out.

                              -- Christian


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On Wed, Oct 05 2016, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote:

Rainer M Krug writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:50:50 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>> I have the following two server in gnus, in addition to a local
>>> imap and gmane, which I have no idea where they come from and if I
>>> need them.
>>> ,----
>>>|      {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
>>>|      {nndraft:} (opened)
>>> `----
>>> My questions are:
>>> 1) how did they get here, are they part of the default setup of
>>> gnus?
>>> 2) what are they used for?
>>> 3) how can I get rid of them if they are not needed (I assume that
>>> nndraft might be useful?)?
>>
>> The nnfolder:archive method will be created when a user uses Gnus
>> for the first time (w/o ~/.newsrc.eld, ~/.gnus.el) for archiving
>> sent messages.  See: (info "(gnus)Archived Messages") 
>>
>> To remove it, quit Gnus, edit the ~/.newsrc.eld file and delete the
>> ("archive" ...) portion in the (setq gnus-server-alist...) section.
>> Be extremely careful!  To turn on the show-paren-mode is
>> recommended.

The archive keeps the messages you have sent. Because my imap keeps a
copy of the sent messages, I do not need a local copy. I think I
removed it just by setting gnus-message-archive-method to nil.

>> The draft: method is used for handling draft messages to send. I
>> don't know alternative way of it, so never remove it.  See: (info
>> "(gnus)Drafts")
>
> Thanks for the info - as they are more or less part of gnus, I'll
> just leave them where they are.

Yes, the draft has messages that you are editing but haven't sent yet.

Best,
-- 
Jorge.