From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78100 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Errors with archive methods Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:21:59 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <7xvcz6dyo8.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301134980 26363 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2011 10:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:23:00 +0000 (UTC) To: nognus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26411@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 26 11:22:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3Qdy-0007bf-PL for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:22:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QdY-0008Vg-5n; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QdW-0008VV-OI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QdL-0005PP-HU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f172.google.com ([74.125.82.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QdK-0002mJ-BU for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:22:14 +0100 Original-Received: by wyb29 with SMTP id 29so1692049wyb.17 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:22:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6xdCbye+j9jkTPo3gQdTupdmOFjFNIzwbzM1iq3G0l8=; b=EBjqJeBxL1oqsn//bHdXbCUPGZYmAC3UfW1clehn/WYXgRHLxGDwjoPfs7P8/lP1zX KBFmSJ7bVCP7HfHmB5FC1NXZmaQ8z6y5OvnJAkXflXgrI1S7NjhOmd90WbClhccj3G5g jKS1ti8cRz6ffBE8dcbTPu3yLduB9lLfxvuT8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GMer/uKyFzE5ZThfi2TFMATi/uMn0Ck1okNCt69is6sAosMV19X7ynZH49AYPx8a4j ZTD7+IgsYp6ymAGbSRs6phowohdQqdHD2yQZZMKmAT9Pr+acgeBE88RFhX1iQmDqvV1T 2vewIVQIafjGdFG+aVUMXHZx3SuOeWXaoZbfw= Original-Received: by 10.216.245.11 with SMTP id n11mr665059wer.108.1301134928576; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from asus1015pem (175.Red-217-126-211.staticIP.rima-tde.net [217.126.211.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b20sm890357wbb.16.2011.03.26.03.22.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from shamrock by asus1015pem with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3Phj-0004AL-T9 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:22:44 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110015 (No Gnus v0.15) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78100 Archived-At: I finally decided to see if I could get rid of the the ~/Mail link which links to my "real" Mail in ~/.emacs.d I had my suspicions it was linked to archiving. Reading the manual I see I can specifiy the archive method thus:- ,---- | gnus-message-archive-method is a variable defined in `gnus.el'. | Its value is (nnfolder "archive" | (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t) | (nnfolder-active-file "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive/active") | (nnfolder-directory "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive/")) |=20 | Original value was "archive" `---- From my understanding the original value of "archive" expands to=20 ,---- |=20 | (nnfolder "archive" | (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") | (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") | (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) | (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)) `---- (is ~/Mail really hardcoded? As opposed to being based on the gnus-directory setting which I have set to ~/.emacs.d ?) My value of gnus-method-group is ,---- | gnus-message-archive-group is a variable defined in `gnus.el'. | Its value is ((if | (message-news-p) | nil | (concat "mail-" | (format-time-string "%Y")))) `---- When I try to send an email plugged or unplugged I get this backtrace ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) | file-name-as-directory(nil) | nnheader-concat(nil "active") | (defvar nnfolder-active-file (nnheader-concat nnfolder-directory "activ= e") ("/home/shamrock/.emacs.d/nognus/lisp/nnfolder.elc" . 1827)) | require(nnfolder) | gnus-server-opened((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t) (nnf= older-active-file "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-directory "~/= .emacs.d/Mail/archive/"))) | gnus-check-server((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t) (nnfo= lder-active-file "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-directory "~/.= emacs.d/Mail/archive/"))) | gnus-inews-do-gcc() | gnus-agent-possibly-do-gcc() | run-hooks(message-sent-hook) | message-send(nil) | message-send-and-exit(nil) | call-interactively(message-send-and-exit nil nil) `---- Something obvious? regards=20 r. --=20 =E2=98=98 http://www.shamrockirishbar.com, http://splash-of-open-sauce.blog= spot.com/ http://www.richardriley.net