Subject: Re: bug#8963: 24.0.50; gnus-no-server tries to connect to IMAP server

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:56:28 +0200

Daiki Ueno <[email-masked]> writes:

> I have been using M-x gnus-no-server to reduce Gnus startup time when
> using it off-line.  However, the current Gnus always tries to connect to
> all the known servers on startup.  Here is my configuration (host names
> are masked):
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")
>       gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnimap "a"
> 		(nnimap-address "a.example.org")
> 		(nnimap-username "daiki")
> 		(nnir-search-engine imap))
> 	(nnimap "b"
> 		(nnimap-address "b.example.com")
> 		(nnimap-username "dueno")
> 		(nnir-search-engine imap))))

What `gnus-no-server' does is start Gnus on level 2 instead of the
default level 5 level.  So if you have groups on level 1 and 2,
`gnus-no-server' will still contact the servers with groups on those
levels.

Is that the case?

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