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From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus - how to force skip nntp connection at gnus startup
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:45:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21glr5mvfktv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2aatj30lo.fsf@gmail.com

Pawel <mafeusek@gmail.com> writes:

> Hallo Group Members.
>
> When I do M-x gnus,
> it always tries to connect to nntp server (that are probably defined
> gnus-select-method):
>
> gnus-select-method is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
> Its value is (nntp "news")
>
> It does it, even when I set:
> (setq gnus-select-method  `(nntp nil))

I think the correct way should be: 

  (setq gnus-select-method nil)

And, 

  (setq gnus-nntp-server nil)

> I am not interrested gnus-select-method. I use gnus only for email
> through imap (secondary methods).
>
> Is there a way to skip nntp server connection.

You can also set nnimap to gnus-select-method, then you won't need
gnus-secondary-select-methods at all.

-- 
William

http://xwl.appspot.com





  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-04 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 11:42 gnus - how to force skip nntp connection at gnus startup Pawel
2010-04-04 12:45 ` William Xu [this message]
2010-04-04 22:26   ` Pawel
2010-04-05 23:12     ` Geralt
2010-04-07  6:23       ` Pawel

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