Re: Strange problem posting to nnimap groups

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

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

> It's really strange.  People at my site enter an nnimap group, hit
> `a' to post a message, check that the right Newsgroups header is
> present, and hit C-c C-c.  

They _check_ that the right Newsgroups header is present?  Does
that mean that it is usually there by default?  This does not
happen to me, which is primarily why I resort to using Outlook via
VMware when I need to post articles to IMAP groups.  Perhaps it is
a feature of latest CVS versions (mine is dated 2002-05-17)?  Or do
I need to configure something to make this work (if yes, why
doesn't it work that way by default)?

> And then they get a message that the group does not exist.

FWIW, there at least was (I don't have foreign groups at the moment
so I cannot check) a somewhat related problem when one does not
enter a group (no matter if it's nnimap or foreign nntp server or
whatever) but uses C-u a in the group buffer.  The result is
different from first entering the group and then hitting a, which
is what I would expect.  That is, the select method is not the
select method of the group but the default select method
(gnus-select-method).

> I started edebugging message-setup but got lost in a twisty maze of
> parentheses, all alike...

:)

> Why does it happen for them but not for me?

I don't know :(  I just checked and it happens to me as well (in
addition to me not getting a Newsgroups header, but perhaps this is
precisely because gnus-current-select-method is nnml (my default
select method) and not nnimap, the select method of the group where
I hit `a').

-- 
Hannu