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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.


  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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