Subject: bug#17550: Removing dead servers from the server list

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:21:04 +0100

Lynbech Christian <[email-masked]> writes:

> Fair enough, I exited the server buffer (typing ?q) and then entered it
> again (with ?^).
>
> Now I wanted to get rid of the dead entry, so I typed ?k
> (gnus-server-kill-server) but got an error that the server is read-only, a
> stack trace is given below.
>
> Why can't I delete the server the usual way and what can be done to get
> rid of the entry (other than editing .newsrc-eld and other files)?
>
>     Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Read-only server nntp:nntp.aioe.org")
>       signal(error ("Read-only server nntp:nntp.aioe.org"))
>       error("Read-only server %s" "nntp:nntp.aioe.org")
>       gnus-server-kill-server("nntp:nntp.aioe.org")
>       call-interactively(gnus-server-kill-server nil nil)
>       command-execute(gnus-server-kill-server)

You don't have to edit anything, but Gnus will list all servers that it
somehow "knows about" until Gnus (or Emacs; I forget) is restarted.  

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