From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24650 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: two nnml backends with different directories Date: 09 Aug 1999 15:52:37 -0400 Organization: People's Front Against MWM Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wvv4rat6.fsf@mit.edu> References: <87u2q8kexn.fsf@x2-536.mtl.Generation.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162177 9812 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05873 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAB07065; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:53:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:54:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13854 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:54:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparkle.Generation.NET (sparkle.Generation.NET [205.205.119.4]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05810 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:52:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (brnstndkramden.acf.nyu.edu@x2-184.mtl.Generation.NET [209.205.10.92]) by sparkle.Generation.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA18810 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:52:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "09 Aug 1999 15:26:33 -0400" Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24650 dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes: > > Basically it doesn't seem to work right to have two servers driven > > by the same backend does it? > > I've done this. There's a couple of gotchas. Be sure to set > nnml-get-new-mail to nil and specify a different active file for the > archive server. Something like: > > (nnml "archive" (nnml-directory "~/Mail/archive") > (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") > (nnml-get-new-mail nil)) > > should work the way you want, and not interfere with your normal nnml > server. I did try exactly that and it still didn't work. I've now figured out why, and there are probably two or three problems that contributed. 0) The default archive file isn't relative to the directory. that seems weird in itself. 1) gnus-message-archive-method seems to override the actual archive method contrary to the info files musings. I guess either way some people are going to be bit by this, probably this variable should go away really. 2) Even after I changed the variable and edited the server the various groups that i had subscribed had been added to my .newsrc.eld with explicit group parameters matching the server parameters at the time. This is totally redundant, it bloats the .newsrc.el and it apparently makes changing server parameters ineffective on existing groups. > -- greg