From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4966 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: no primary server ! Date: 25 Apr 2005 20:53:08 -0700 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 1138670804 25588 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:26:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:34 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: Ian Zimmerman Original-Approved: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1114487937 25144 199.232.76.165 (26 Apr 2005 03:58:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Envelope-to: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Authentication-Warning: disorder.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f X-Unicorn-Archive: yes In-Reply-To: <87r7gztjml.fsf@koldfront.dk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (disorder.primate.net [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:53:08 -0700 (PDT) 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-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5107 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5107 Tue Jan 17 17:34:34 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4966 Archived-At: 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? -- Optimist: We're only two weeks behind schedule. Pessimist: The schedule is a whole two weeks ahead of us.