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Re: not reading news, only email
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Nelson Ferreira |
Subject: |
Re: not reading news, only email |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:03:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) SXEmacs/22.1.8 (linux) |
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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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Nelson Ferreira
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