From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9697 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: not reading news, only email Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:33:58 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <200709221509.l8MF99Ki004875@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190536939 29784 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 08:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:42:19 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 10:42:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZN2a-0001Uz-2k for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZN2X-0003TF-J8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:42:09 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: 1; h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB; kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm; %Od List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9697 Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 22 2007, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > I have always used gnus to read both news and email. But now I have a > system where I only use it for mail. > Everytime I start gnus I get the message > "Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)" > Obviously I am not subscribed to any newsgroup on that machine. > > What is the best way to tell gnus not to try nntp? Customize `gnus-select-method' to use the nnnil back end instead of nntp, e.g. (nnnil ""). Alternatively, use your preferred mail back end as primary select method (`gnus-select-method' instead of `gnus-secondary-select-methods'). I notice that nnnil is not documented in the manual. From `nnnil.el': ;;; Commentary: ;; nnnil is a Gnus backend that provides no groups or articles. It's useful ;; as a primary select method when you want all your real select methods to ;; be secondary or foreign. > Should it even try it if there's no subscription to any newsgroup? I think it should. Gnus automatically subscribes some groups and the user probably wants to start subscribing when no groups are subscribed yet. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/