Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence?

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Mon, 17 May 2010 21:51:20 +0200, Merciadri wrote:

>> The primary method isn't prefixed. The secondary ones are.

> Prefixed? Huh? In which way?
[...]

In the way I showed in the example:

[...]
>> This means that you can refer to groups on news.stuff.com by just their
>> name, say a.group.name, instead of by nntp+news.stuff.com:a.group.name,
>> and that you refer to your mail-groups as nnml:a.mailgroup.name

[...]

>> Eh, what?

> Sorry, I wanted to say `[...] an _interest_ in defining [...]'. Is it
> more clear, now?

Not to me :-) You seem to use the word 'interest' in a way I've never
encountered before.

Sometimes it looks like you wanted to write "significance" instead?

>>> 7. What's the interest of `my-signature' in

>> What do you mean by 'interest' here?

> For me, `my-signature' was some homemade variable, and I was asking
> why I would have ever defined such a variable if there was already one
> which was made for it (i.e. a default one).

How can anyone besides you explain why you did something? I'm puzzled.

>> Why are you customizing gnus-signature-separator?!

> Isn't that necessary?

Why would it be?

You seem to assume that you have to configure Gnus a lot to get it in a
sane state.

That is in my experience usually not the case - the defaults are quite
reasonable and have been adjusted along the years.

Starting from a minimal configuration and customizing things as you
encounter them gets you quite a long way, I think.

>>> (setq nntp-authinfo-file ".someauthfile.gpg")
>>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials ".someauthfile.gpg")

>> Looks like one is for nntp, the other is for smtp? You can get help on
>> any variable by pressing 'C-h v' and then typing the name of the
>> variable (tab-completion works).

> Both give [no match] in my Emacs. And I never found any interesting
> answer about it, on the Internet too.

Then why did you set them?!?

Are you copy/pasting from somewhere that has no explanations, or how did
you get all this stuff that you seem to not know anything about in your
configuration?

> According to the settings of my .gnus, I would like, to be sure to
> have understood the whole process, to know how it manages to post some
> message using nnml/nnmail.

This doesn't make sense. nnml/nnmail does not post messages.

> The nntp method is not a problem for me; I understand how it works,
> but, for the e-mail, I still mix all the directories.

Why do you fiddle with them, then?

I'm sorry if I sound a little harsh at times, it's just because I am
having a hard time understanding :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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