Mail gets split to archive groups

Mail gets split to archive groups

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi all,

I've posted this to gmane.emacs.gnus.user before but didn't get any
answers.

My mail splitting for mail-sources is defined by:

(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
      nnmail-split-fancy
      '(| (any "tassilo.horn@gmx.de"     "mail.gmx")
          (any "tassilo.horn@freenet.de" "mail.freenet")
          "mail.misc"))

Normally this works good and pop3 mails are sorted into the groups

           nnml:mail.freenet
           nnml:mail.gmx
           nnml:mail.misc

I also use nnml-archive groups.

(setq gnus-message-archive-method
      '(nnml "archive"
             (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)
             (nnml-directory "~/News/archive")
             (nnml-active-file "~/News/archive/active")))

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      '((cond
         ((message-news-p)
          ;; News
          (concat "sent-messages-" (format-time-string "%Y")))
         ((message-mail-p)
          ;; Mail
          "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Items"))))

So my own news postings get archived in groups like

           nnml+archive:sent-messages-2006
           nnml+archive:sent-messages-2007

This works, too.

But sometimes when I check for new messages from my mail-sources it is
split into groups of the archive server and I get groups like:

           nnml+archive:mail.freenet
           nnml+archive:mail.gmx
           nnml+archive:mail.misc

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?

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Mail gets split to archive groups

[Reiner Steib]

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').

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?

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Mail gets split to archive groups

[Tassilo Horn]

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