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On 24 May 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote:

> Clinton Roy <latte@uq.net.au> writes:
> 
> > * tell the imap back end to only grab mail from my inbox? I've tried
> > various values of nnimap-list-pattern but nothing seems to work.
> 
> What *do* you have for list-pattern? I have the following, and this
> only tries to read mail from under ~/mail/ directory:
> 
>       gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")
> 				      (nnimap "soup"
> 					      (nnimap-address "soup")
> 					      (nnimap-list-pattern ( ("mail/" . "*")))))
oh, you have to use it inside that, will try later on.

> > * tell imap to store it's cached copy of the server somewhere other then
> > ~/ ?
> 
> I may be missing something out, but what do you mean by cached copy of
> the server? Do you mean that you cache IMAP articles? What for?
err. forget that. i've just had a closer look at these files. they're the
sentintel type of email address that pine uses to start it's type of email
folder...

<time passes>

crap. i deleted them. i think they were something to do with the imap
server, i can't access any of my mail now. what on earth can i do?

> > My draft group is broken, and i'm this happened before i started
> > mucking with anything, so i'm pretty sure it's just because of the
> > upgrade.
> > 
> > i've tried: recompling my .gnus, killing the group, deleting the group
> > (which isn't supported) and physically ripping out the group from the
> > underlying file system.
> > 
> > half finished messages do get saved, but all i see in the *group* buffer
> > is:
> > 
> >         *: nndraft:drafts
> What happens when you do "M-g" on it?
from M-x show-message-log:

nndraft:drafts error: 

and when i try to select it:
Retrieving newsgroup: nndraft:drafts...
Couldn't request group nndraft:drafts: 

not really that useful...