Re: self contained nnfolder

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

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hm.  Well, do you really need it to be both foreign and secondary?

Probably not.  I'll try making gnus-secondary-select-methods nil.

>>> 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.
>
> I should have said that you shouldn't try restarting Gnus at this
> point - you also need to fix gnus-message-archive-method first.

I tried that too, but it didn't help.  But I noticed something funny
this time:  if I start gnus with `M-x gnus' or `M-x gnus-no-server',
I don't get an error about the archive server.  But I usually start
it via a custom function which runs (gnus nil t), and when I do
this I get the following backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
  gnus-server-opened(((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))))
  gnus-check-server(((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))))
  gnus-read-active-file-1(((nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))) nil)
  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)
  eval((gnus nil t))
  eval-expression((gnus nil t) nil)
  call-interactively(eval-expression)

I'm not sure why gnus behaves differently in this case.

This is with g-m-arch-method set to "nnfolder:" and gnus-server-alist
set to '(("" nnfolder "")).  Maybe I should just let my nnfolder
server be named "archive", but somehow I'd rather have it be my own
private server, not one that gnus is assuming has any special uses.

Dan

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Dan Christensen
jdc+news@uwo.ca