Re: Issue with nnml backend and gnus-group-get-new-news()

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> Do you have this in your .gnus.el?  The syntax is wrong, and normally
> you should get an error with that.  This would be correct:
>

you're right, I messed it up during the copy & paste operation.

>
>>> I think that maybe your splitting rules don't match anything, and so
>>> all your mails end up in some "misc" group you probably aren't
>>> subscribed to.
>>
>> Hm, I don't think so since they work as expected if I call
>> gnus-group-get-new-news() _without_ prefix.
>
> Hm, I don't know how the prefix should interfer with the splitting.

I have no idea, but it really looks like a bug so I'm reporting.

>  Do
> you provide a prefix value that includes or excludes those groups?

From the help documentation:

  Get newly arrived articles.
  If ARG is a number, it specifies which levels you are interested in
  re-scanning.  If ARG is non-nil and not a number, this will force
  "hard" re-reading of the active files from all servers.

>
>> Could you give it a try and see if it works as exepcted on your side ?
>
> I use fancy mail splitting, and it works for me.  But I didn't test with
> a prefix argument till now, because those two accounts I use nnml and
> POP3 sources for are very low traffic.

Well I think the issue is when testing _with_ a prefix argument.

thanks
-- 
Francis