On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:55:34 -0700, Ian wrote: Adam> What virtual server?
> The archive server. The manual makes it sound as if you're _defining_ > a new virtual server by setting the gnus-message-archive-method variable. Ah, ok. I wouldn't have guessed it to be virtual. Adam> What is your primary server called, in your configuration? > The server name (Customize calls it "address") is the same, but it has a > whole bunch of options attached to configure TLS. Ok, I think it finds it based on the name (so all the options are used, in your case). Ian> That would mean you couldn't have a TLS and a plaintext connection Ian> to the same server ... Adam> Unless you gave them different names, I'd think. > But how would you connect to the _same_ server with different names? > Is the Gnus name not necessarily the DNS name of the machine? It can be pretty much any string, as far as I know (but then you have to specify the hostname of the server in a parameter). The example in 6.5 IMAP in the manual illustrates it: * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html#SEC208 Adam> (I don't really know why you would want to have separate Adam> connections. It sounded on one of your earlier emails like you Adam> wanted to _avoid_ multiple connections?) > Yes, but I can imagine it might be useful. The IMAP server could offer > different groups/mailboxes on the plain and encrypted connections, for > example. I would think that the ones available by plain text would be a subset of the ones available by encrypted in any "real" use? But anyway, I think you could solve this by using different names. Best regards, Adam -- "Good car to drive after a war" Adam Sjøgren [email protected] _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
