From: Randy Sims <Private_User@srs.gov>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnmh-directory ?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:57:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199711141157.AA22699@gateway1.srs.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jason R Mastaler's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:33:43 -0700"
Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > Randy Sims <randal.sims@srs.gov> writes:
> >
> > > I'm confused -- but, not an unusual situation! With Quassia Gnus v0.13
> > > when using a nnmh backend, nnmh-directory keeps getting set to
> > > "~/News/drafts/" on startup. I think it should be "~/Mail/". What's
> > > going on?
> >
> > That's correct behavior. Is this a problem? When you read an nnmh
> > group, that variable should revert to its "proper" value.
>
> The problem is that it doesn't revert to it's proper value, and when
> you start Gnus it thinks all your nnmh are empty when they aren't.
> Trying to open them leads to an error because Gnus is looking in
> ~/News/drafts/ instead of ~/Mail/ for the messages. With the patch I
> posted though, things work as they should.
Yes, my description was quite inadequate and Jason described the
problem precisely and kindly supplied a proposed fix.
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-14 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-10 16:20 Randy Sims
1997-11-11 1:42 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-11-13 21:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-14 1:33 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-11-14 11:57 ` Randy Sims [this message]
1997-11-23 5:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-23 19:32 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-11-24 6:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-24 22:42 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-11-24 23:08 ` Jason R Mastaler
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