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Subject: Re: nnfolder: seems broken out of the box on 5.8.8
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> I've never used nnfolder before, although it seems to get recreated
> even when I try to get rid of all traces of it.
> 
> I have no nnfolder- settings in my .gnus.el
> 
> When I eradicate any trace of what was previously set up, I get
> ~/Mail/archive/ created, empty, and the following settings
> get copied into my servers:
> 
> (nnfolder "archive"
> 	  (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive")
> 	  (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
> 	  (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
> 	  (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))
> 
> And these look to be the current values of those variables as well.
> 
> When I use "G m" to make "testing" in "nnfolder:", I get a file
> named ~/Mail/testing, and ~/Mail/active gets updated.  This seems contrary
> to the settings above.

The method (server) should be "nnfolder:archive" instead of
"nnfolder:".  "nnfolder:" means that you are using the default setting
(or whatever), in which nnfolder-directory is ~/Mail and
nnfolder-active-file is ~/Mail/active.

ShengHuo