Howdy all!

I'm using emacs 22.2, gnus 5.11, on a redhat 9 box.

Quick question:

Can nnimap be used as the primary select method? Or must it be a
secondary select method?

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.

Since I can get mine working either way, I thought I would at least
try and clear up this confusion. ;-)

Thanks!

Ed

Ed gmail.com> writes:

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...

Ed gmail.com> writes:

Yes.

-David

On Jul 26, 10:34 am, David wrote:

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.

Ed gmail.com> writes:

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: