From: Nelson Ferreira <njsf@sxemacs.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: not reading news, only email
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:03:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k5qi55yw.fsf.nfl.676e7573.00@tuxie.inware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1171.1190522873.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
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"Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
Dan> Hi,
Dan> I have always used gnus to read both news and email. But now I have a
Dan> system where I only use it for mail.
Dan> Everytime I start gnus I get the message
Dan> "Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)"
Dan> Obviously I am not subscribed to any newsgroup on that machine.
Dan> What is the best way to tell gnus not to try nntp? Should it even try
Dan> it if there's no subscription to any newsgroup?
I've had the best success with:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
then
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote (nnml "")) t)
I do that even in my setup with multiple nntp servers configured.
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2007-09-23 5:03 ` Nelson Ferreira [this message]
2007-09-22 15:09 Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-23 8:08 ` CHENG Gao
2007-09-23 8:33 ` Reiner Steib
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