From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4968 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Flatty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: no primary server ! Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:49:40 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: References: <87r7gztjml.fsf@koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670805 25592 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:34 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UkEHG2Kdb4I+NN9npJQyEbf5POw= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.219.186.159 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=Xk3AdNC^3U]`4PX8Fbi01gKkXc9MM6b0bQ=O5iHgo4BMSh3RhO6UThk`_jGfG Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5109 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5109 Tue Jan 17 17:34:34 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4968 Archived-At: Ian Zimmerman 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