Re: self contained nnfolder

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

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

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote:
> > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:
>>>>      (setq gnus-server-alist '(("archive" nnfolder "") ("" nnfolder "")))
>>>
>>> Don't let two servers share the same directory.  Unless, that is, you
>>> want to be strange on purpose.
>> 
>> I guess I was hoping that the above meant that "archive" and "" were
>> in fact the *same* server, i.e. both were names for the server
>> (nnfolder "").  Is that not how it works?
>
> I don't think it works that way. 
>
>> Is there some way to have only one nnfolder server?
>> 
>> I only have one listed in the server buffer and
>> gnus-secondary-select-methods is set to ((nnfolder "")).
>
> First do like Kai said and make sure all your groups identify their
> server by "nnfolder:" (or by "archive" or "", depending on which of
> those names you want to end up with)  and not by select method.  

I changed all groups to use "nnfolder:" and that worked.

> Next
> make sure all your Gcc-producing configuration stuff uses fully
> qualifed group names.

Already so.

> 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.
(And I did include the parentheses around it.)  So I've set
gnus-secondary-select-methods to ((nnfolder "")).  Will this
cause me some problems?

> 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.  When I remove the "" entry, everything was fine.
Is this a bug in gnus?  It seems to have `archive' hardcoded
somewhere.

> Edit your .gnus to make
> gnus-message-archive-method nil; 

> I think the above should work if you don't use
> gnus-message-archive-group.  If you do, then
> gnus-message-archive-method must be non-nil.  It might work to set it
> to "nnfolder:"; I'm not sure.  If it has to be a select method and not
> a server name, then use the select method that is
> (cdr (car gnus-server-alist)).

I've got it set to (nnfolder "").

If someone could write an overview of this stuff in the manual,
that would be great.  I find it incredibly confusing, even after
reading all of the messages here.

-- 
Dan Christensen
jdc+news@uwo.ca