Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes

[Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>]

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

> Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> wrote:
>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>> The trouble is with people who do this:
>>> 
>>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
>>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder ""))
> ...
>> I've not yet verified if this happens only because I have '(nnml "")
>> as my primary select method.
> 
> It happens because you have '(nnml "") as a select method.  It
> doesn't matter whether it's primary, secondary, or foreign.

This is particularly dangerous because operations such as "B c" can
cause select methods to magically appear.  I wonder if this is wise.

I also notice that if I gnus-server-regenerate-server my "nnml:"
server, it gets confused by the Mail/archive directory (which is an
nnfolder: thing by default, and is placed in Mail/ by default).

Have all these issues always been present?  I think not.  Hasn't Gnus
historically only relied on .newsrc.eld for group info, and only
recently looked at files on disk to try to find groups for the
backends?


-- 
matt