Re: new (?) version of the old nnml problem

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>>> No, you are right, "D" is what I wanted.
>>> But then I can't send this! Even tho it
>>> isn't mail? (error "Can't open server nnml:")
>>> in gnus-inews-do-gcc
>>
>> It sends okay, the only error is that you
>> have Gnus set up to archive your messages in
>> the nnml server, so the archiving failed.
>
> You are right:
>
>     (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:mail.sent")
>
> Is that a bad idea?

Not at all -- you've got to put them somewhere. And in fact an nnml
server will always be available (barring some filesystem problems). It's
only because you've explicitly shut it off that it's rejecting messages,
and like I said that might not even solve your real problem, which is
with the POP mail source, not the nnml store.

> I suppose the optimal would be to have one
> -sent group for each group, i.e.
> gmane.emacs.gnus.general-sent

But those sent messages still need to be stored locally, somehow -- you
can't actually post your sent messages to gmane. IMAP is the only server
where the archiving is also remote. nnml or nnmaildir are perfectly good
choices for local storage.

> Overkill for my purposes tho but I suppose it
> would resolve this particular protocol
> mismatch issue.

No it wouldn't, see above.