Re: Mail gets split to archive groups

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 30 2007, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
>>            nnml:mail.freenet
> [...]
>>            nnml+archive:sent-messages-2007
> [...]
>>            nnml+archive:mail.freenet
> [...]
>> I cannot see any difference between mails that are split into the normal
>> groups and those that are split into the same groups on the archive
>> server.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Check if there's (nnml-get-new-mail nil) in the archive server
> definition (`^' to enter the server buffer, then `e').

No, at least not explicitly and the default value is to be t.  So that
seems to be the culprit.

> Just a wild guess: Maybe somewhere in the code there is a bug that
> occurs here because the empty name of the mail method which matches
> "archive":
>
> ELISP> (string-match "" "archive")
> 0
>
> Maybe you could add some debug checks (e.g. in `nnmail-get-new-mail'?)
> depending on the server?

Uh, that's not really easy to grasp.  But if the problem persists with
`nnml-get-new-mail' set to nil for the archive server, I'll try to dig
into it.

Thanks a lot,
Tassilo