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gnus: Server Buffer

 
 6.1 Server Buffer
 =================
 
 Traditionally, a “server” is a machine or a piece of software that one
 connects to, and then requests information from.  Gnus does not connect
 directly to any real servers, but does all transactions through one back
 end or other.  But that’s just putting one layer more between the actual
 media and Gnus, so we might just as well say that each back end
 represents a virtual server.
 
    For instance, the ‘nntp’ back end may be used to connect to several
 different actual NNTP servers, or, perhaps, to many different ports on
 the same actual NNTP server.  You tell Gnus which back end to use, and
 what parameters to set by specifying a “select method”.
 
    These select method specifications can sometimes become quite
 complicated—say, for instance, that you want to read from the NNTP
 server ‘news.funet.fi’ on port number 13, which hangs if queried for NOV
 headers and has a buggy select.  Ahem.  Anyway, if you had to specify
 that for each group that used this server, that would be too much work,
 so Gnus offers a way of naming select methods, which is what you do in
 the server buffer.
 
    To enter the server buffer, use the ‘^’
 (‘gnus-group-enter-server-mode’) command in the group buffer.
 

Menu

 
· Server Buffer Format        You can customize the look of this buffer.
· Server Commands             Commands to manipulate servers.
· Example Methods             Examples server specifications.
· Creating a Virtual Server   An example session.
· Server Variables            Which variables to set.
· Servers and Methods         You can use server names as select methods.
· Unavailable Servers         Some servers you try to contact may be down.
 
    ‘gnus-server-mode-hook’ is run when creating the server buffer.
 

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