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From: Flatty <flatman@swing.be>
Subject: Re: no primary server !
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:49:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m264yahytn.fsf@MAC2.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2994.1114487974.2895.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

> Flatty> Is there a way to make gnus NOT check the primary server and
> Flatty> even NOT use it at all ?  I tried setting the variable
> Flatty> gnus-select-method to nil but gnus allways wants a nntp server !
>
> Adam> Perhaps you can use nnnil as the primary server?
> Adam> Something like:
>
> Adam>  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
>
> Why?  Why not simply make the real source of articles (a mail backend,
> I presume) the primary?
>

Well, I tried a lot of stuff to make things work faster. 
I didn't think of your idea ... I will try this later .

Thanks


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-24 15:49 Flatty
2005-04-25  7:12 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-04-26  3:53   ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-04-26  5:49     ` Flatty [this message]
2005-04-26  6:34     ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-04-26 14:18       ` David Z Maze

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