Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 26, 10:34 am, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Can nnimap be used as the primary select method? >> >> Yes. > > 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.
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: (from the manual, section 10.7.2) |Gnus doesn't know anything about NNTP, spools, mail or virtual groups. |It only knows how to talk to "virtual servers". A virtual server is a |"back end" and some "back end variables". As examples of the first, we |have `nntp', `nnspool' and `nnmbox'. As examples of the latter we have |`nntp-port-number' and `nnmbox-directory'. -David _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
