Re: self contained nnfolder

[Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>>
>>> gnus-secondary-select-methods should
>>> also be nil, or, if you want your foreign nnfolder server to also be
>>> secondary, use '("nnfolder:").  
>>
>> This didn't work.  I got an error that "nnfolder:" wasn't a list.
>> (And I did include the parentheses around it.)  So I've set
>> gnus-secondary-select-methods to ((nnfolder "")).  Will this
>> cause me some problems?
>
> Hm.  You have (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("nnfolder:"))?
> And that doesn't work?  

Nope.  Here's the backtrace.  (I tried to load gnus.el to get a
better backtrace, but got an error about gnuserv-start when doing
so.)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "nnfolder:")
  gnus-server-to-method("nnfolder:")
  #[(m) "\b;ƒH\0Ä\b\x19\x1a	;ƒ\x14\0Å	!‚F\0	\všƒ\x1e\0\v‚F\0	@;ƒ/\0\nƒ/\0Æ\n	\"‚F\0	ƒC\0\n„C\0Ç	!ÈšƒC\0	‚F\0É	!*‡\b‡" [m method group gnus-select-method nil gnus-server-to-method gnus-server-extend-method cadr "" gnus-server-add-address] 3]("nnfolder:")
  mapcar(#[(m) "\b;ƒH\0Ä\b\x19\x1a	;ƒ\x14\0Å	!‚F\0	\všƒ\x1e\0\v‚F\0	@;ƒ/\0\nƒ/\0Æ\n	\"‚F\0	ƒC\0\n„C\0Ç	!ÈšƒC\0	‚F\0É	!*‡\b‡" [m method group gnus-select-method nil gnus-server-to-method gnus-server-extend-method cadr "" gnus-server-add-address] 3] ("nnfolder:" "archive"))
  gnus-read-active-file(nil t)
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil t)
  byte-code("\b„\x0e\0	„\x0e\0Æ ˆ‚O\0ÇÈ!ˆÉ\n!\x13\f„\x1e\0\rƒ!\0Ê ˆ\x0e\x19ƒ.\0Ë ˆÌÍÎ\"ˆÏÐ\x0e\x1a\b#ˆÇÑ!ˆÒ ˆÓ\x0e\x1a!ˆÔ ˆÕÖ!ˆ× ˆÇØ!ˆÐ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-grouplens level] 4)
  gnus-1(nil t nil)
  gnus(nil t)
  jdc-gnus-no-server()
  jdc-gnus()
  call-interactively(jdc-gnus)

>>> Edit your .newsrc.eld (while Gnus is
>>> not running) to remove whichever entry from gnus-server-alist you
>>> don't want to use.
>>
>> I don't want to use "archive", but when I removed it from
>> gnus-server-alist I got an error message when Gnus started, even
>> though the string `archive' didn't appear anywhere in my .newsrc.eld
>> or my .gnus.  When I remove the "" entry, everything was fine.
>> Is this a bug in gnus?  It seems to have `archive' hardcoded
>> somewhere.
>
> I think normally people aren't supposed to set gnus-server-alist
> manually.  

Yes, but mine seems wrong, and I'm just trying to get it back to
a sane state.

> I think Gnus looks is there is an archive server when it
> starts up.  If an archive server is missing, it creates one.  Now,
> maybe you set gnus-server-alist after Gnus created the archive server?
> Then Gnus got very confused that the archive server was missing even
> after it created it.

Gnus shouldn't have any record that it existed before, since there
is no mention of the word archive in any of my gnus related files.

>>> Edit your .gnus to make
>>> gnus-message-archive-method nil; 
>>
>> I've got it set to (nnfolder "").
>
> Hm.  No, that doesn't sound right.  Or is (nnfolder "") without
> further parameters your normal mail select method?  

Yes, it's my normal select method.  (I do have lots of nnfolder
and nnmail variables set globally, but (I think) I only have one
mail server, so hopefully that's not a problem.)

Dan