From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38672 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: typo in gnus-start.el? Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:49:25 -0400 Sender: Dan Christensen Message-ID: <87pu92ecbu.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <2npu93ijq4.fsf@piglet.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174496 23703 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10504 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2001 00:49:33 -0000 Original-Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (129.100.2.63) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Sep 2001 00:49:33 -0000 Original-Received: from scratchy (ren.math.uwo.ca [129.100.75.76]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f880o1m27390 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jdc by scratchy with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15fWJJ-000767-00; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:49:25 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.100 Original-Lines: 42 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38672 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38672 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > Bill White writes: > >> The current definition of gnus-start.el:gnus-setup-news seems to have >> a typo that prevents startup in a virgin gnus-directory when you're >> using an archive server. If you have an "old" .newsrc.eld, then this >> bug may be masked that .newsrc.eld's (setq gnus-server-alist...) > > Installed. Thanks. > > ShengHuo This fixes some of the problems I was reporting with the archive server. Now, if I delete the archive server from my gnus-server-alist, it is created successfully when Gnus starts, and is distinct from my (nnfolder "") server. Moreover, if I exit Gnus, get rid of the archive server in my .newsrc.eld, set gnus-message-archive-method to nil, and restart, then all works fine and no archive server is created. However, if I do either of: (setq gnus-message-archive-method (car gnus-secondary-select-methods)) (setq gnus-message-archive-method '(nnfolder "")) (which should be basically the same), then Gnus goes ahead and creates an archive server for me. It doesn't use it for outgoing messages (it correctly uses (nnfolder "")), but it still thinks it needs to create it for me. I think this is a bug. Luckily there is a workaround: set gnus-message-archive-method to nil, and then use the variable gnus-outgoing-message-group, which I just learned about. (Why are there two ways to save outgoing messages? What can the first do that the second can't?) But I don't think Gnus should create the default archive server if the user has set gnus-message-archive-method. -- Dan Christensen jdc+news@uwo.ca