gnus: Posting Server
5.2 Posting Server
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When you press those magical ‘C-c C-c’ keys to ship off your latest
(extremely intelligent, of course) article, where does it go?
Thank you for asking. I hate you.
It can be quite complicated.
When posting news, Message usually invokes ‘message-send-news’ (
News Variables (message)News Variables.). Normally, Gnus will post
using the same select method as you’re reading from (which might be
convenient if you’re reading lots of groups from different private
servers). However. If the server you’re reading from doesn’t allow
posting, just reading, you probably want to use some other server to
post your (extremely intelligent and fabulously interesting) articles.
You can then set the ‘gnus-post-method’ to some other method:
(setq gnus-post-method '(nnspool ""))
Now, if you’ve done this, and then this server rejects your article,
or this server is down, what do you do then? To override this variable
you can use a non-zero prefix to the ‘C-c C-c’ command to force using
the “current” server, to get back the default behavior, for posting.
If you give a zero prefix (i.e., ‘C-u 0 C-c C-c’) to that command,
Gnus will prompt you for what method to use for posting.
You can also set ‘gnus-post-method’ to a list of select methods. If
that’s the case, Gnus will always prompt you for what method to use for
posting.
Finally, if you want to always post using the native select method,
you can set this variable to ‘native’.
When sending mail, Message invokes the function specified by the
variable ‘message-send-mail-function’. Gnus tries to set it to a value
suitable for your system. Mail Variables (message)Mail
Variables, for more information.
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gnus: Composing Messages
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