Re: can nnimap be used as a primary select method for GNUS?
Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have seen contradictory advice on the web, with some using nnimap as > their primary method, and others setting the primary one to nil and > using nnimap as a secondary select method. I was thinking the exact same thing just a week ago, but I decided to go with getting onto Usenet instead ;) I'm late catching up on the Eternal September... -- I like the idea of 256 bits, though: 32 for the (Unicode) character leaves room for 224 Bucky bits, which ought to be enough for anyone. -- Roland Hutchinson, in alt.folklore.computers ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: can nnimap be used as a primary select method for GNUS?
Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can nnimap be used as the primary select method? Yes. -David ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: can nnimap be used as a primary select method for GNUS?
On Jul 26, 10:34 am, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can nnimap be used as the primary select method? > > Yes. > > -David Here's the section of the GNUS manual that caused my confusion, I believe: If you want to use IMAP as a mail storage protocol, use an nnimap entry in `gnus-secondary-select-methods'. With this, Gnus will manipulate mails stored on the IMAP server. This is the kind of usage explained in this section. ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: can nnimap be used as a primary select method for GNUS?
Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 26, 10:34 am, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Can nnimap be used as the primary select method? >> >> Yes. > > Here's the section of the GNUS manual that caused my confusion, I > believe: > >If you want to use IMAP as a mail storage protocol, use an nnimap > entry in `gnus-secondary-select-methods'. With this, Gnus will > manipulate mails stored on the IMAP server. This is the kind of usage > explained in this section. Yes, the manual always uses gnus-select-method for news and gnus-secondary-select-methods for all the other back ends. I would guess this is simply for historical reasons, but I don't really know. I would assume that you can use every back end as a primary or secondary select method, since for Gnus everything looks like news anyway: (from the manual, section 10.7.2) |Gnus doesn't know anything about NNTP, spools, mail or virtual groups. |It only knows how to talk to "virtual servers". A virtual server is a |"back end" and some "back end variables". As examples of the first, we |have `nntp', `nnspool' and `nnmbox'. As examples of the latter we have |`nntp-port-number' and `nnmbox-directory'. -David ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
