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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> So, I tried G-M'ing a group with "arch.todo" "nnfolder".  It created a
> directory ~/Mail/arch/todo (note, NOT under ~/Mail/archive),

This is the right thing for Gnus to do, since it has two servers,
`nnfolder+archive' and `nnfolder', and you chose the second one.

> which nnml on next invocation decided was an nnml group.  It also
> took about three or four tries to get everyone to agree that the
> folder wasn't there again.

This is because two of your backends (nnml and nnfolder) share the
same active file, and each gets confused by the other's groups.

You may wish to frob your nnfolder server to have a different active
file.  It might be best to locate your nnfolder server in a different
directory altogether, though I'm not sure if this is necessary.  (I
avoid multiple servers using the same directory :-)

kai
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