From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14137 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence? Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:20:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc8u29zx.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <8739xq5sy8.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> <87fx1qcpnr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877hn2fgsn.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291934875 29269 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 22:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:47:55 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 23:47:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQpHC-0007Un-Pu for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:47:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQpHC-00089F-2Y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60845 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQjEy-0004a3-Sr for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQjEx-0007oE-9a for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQjEx-0007nq-3x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQjEv-0007Rb-Ah for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:21:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:21:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:21:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTN3UO5WD9/VS3BqnGhwA2DN2Uc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14137 Archived-At: Merciadri Luca writes: Hi! >> The primary method isn't prefixed. The secondary ones are. > > Prefixed? Huh? In which way? The groups from the primary select method show up as foo.bar.baz whereas the same group on a secondary server would show up as nntp+MyNewsServer:foo.bar.baz >> Why are you customizing gnus-signature-separator?! > > Isn't that necessary? That could be what causes my signatures' > problems. Just a general comment: Never ever modify any variables unless you know what you are doing. And don't borrow code you've found on the net, unless you can understand it! Gnus (all of Emacs) has sane default values for anything. Start with them. Of course, when you want to use Gnus, you have some initial setup to do, but only for telling it where to get mail/news and how to send it. For example, to use Gnus for reading mail on an IMAP server (IMO, the times of storing mail only locally are dead and gone), simply add something like (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) to your ~/.gnus.el, and login/password into ~/.authinfo.gpg. Basically, that should be everything you need to do, at least with very recent gnus versions. Bye, Tassilo