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Re: not reading news, only email


From: Nelson Ferreira
Subject: Re: not reading news, only email
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:03:03 -0400
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"Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>  wrote:

  Dan> Hi, 
  Dan> I have always used gnus to read both news and email. But now I have a
  Dan> system where I only use it for mail. 
  Dan> Everytime I start gnus I get the message 
  Dan> "Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)"
  Dan> Obviously I am not subscribed to any newsgroup on that machine. 

  Dan> What is the best way to tell gnus not to try nntp? Should it even try
  Dan> it if there's no subscription to any newsgroup?

I've had the best success with:

        (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))

then

        (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote (nnml "")) t)

I do that even in my setup with multiple nntp servers configured.


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