From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2475 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Stevenson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: going imap Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:51:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87issfvwlg.Mysidae@boppy.dyndns.org> References: <87smrjw8t7.unregulated@boppy.dyndns.org> <843cjjf585.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668892 15252 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:45 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dsl-217-155-57-234.zen.co.UK!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-217-155-57-234.zen.co.uk (217.155.57.234) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052830105 23241533 217.155.57.234 (16 [169486]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:77Kfe4nvfBsYudILJAdnISrIbjU= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2615 Original-Lines: 15 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2615 Tue Jan 17 17:30:45 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2475 Archived-At: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > You are using nnimap as the primary select method. Maybe it works > better if you use it as a secondary select method. > > I recommend (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) if you want to go > that route (or try it). nnnil is a backend that contains no groups. Oh. That is what I used to do, but one of the aesthetic plusses in starting again from scratch is that (I thought) I could dispense with the nnnil select method and just have a nnimap primary select method and no secondaries... Oh well. You are right, though. My problems are solved by using nnimap as a secondary select method. Thanks! Paul