nnml and compressed message files

nnml and compressed message files

[Michael Albinus]

[I've sent this message 2 weeks ago to bugs@gnus.org; unfortunately
nothing happened. So I try it on the Ding mailing list]

Hi,

I switched recently to Gnus 5.10.2. Unfortunately, I cannot read
anymore the messages which are stored as compressed files ("123.gz"),
which worked for Gnus 5.8.8. Problem seems to be that message file
names are taken from the NOV file now.

The following patch works for me:

albinus@slbwba:[1126] diff -u nnml.el.orig nnml.el
--- nnml.el.orig        Thu May  1 16:23:15 2003
+++ nnml.el     Sun Jun  1 17:21:28 2003
@@ -886,7 +886,8 @@
 (defun nnml-current-group-article-to-file-alist ()
   "Return an alist of article/file pairs in the current group.
 Use the nov database for the current group if available."
-  (if (or gnus-nov-is-evil
+  (if (or nnml-use-compressed-files
+         gnus-nov-is-evil
          nnml-nov-is-evil
          (not (file-exists-p
                (expand-file-name nnml-nov-file-name

Other possiblities might be to set nnml-nov-is-evil to 't (which is
not desirable), or to store message file names but message numbers in
the NOV database, which would lead to side effects.

Best regards, Michael.

Re: nnml and compressed message files

[Kai Großjohann]

Michael Albinus <Michael.Albinus@alcatel.de> writes:

> The following patch works for me:

Applied.  Will commit when back online.

The whole business seems a bit fishy: the alist is only used when
using compressed files, so having an implementation that does the
wrong thing with compressed files is, err, hm.

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