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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
Subject: Re: no primary server !
Date: 25 Apr 2005 20:53:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.2994.1114487974.2895.info-gnus-english@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7gztjml.fsf@koldfront.dk>


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?

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26  3:53 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 [this message]
2005-04-26  5:49     ` Flatty
2005-04-26  6:34     ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-04-26 14:18       ` David Z Maze

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