Re: Bug regarding reading sent-mail folder

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

The old articles can be found in:

http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/thread=56470

>>>>> In <m34qae85hy.fsf@zeus.intra.softace.dk> Jarl Friis wrote:

> Thanks for your response. It is long time we communicated. I have been
> very busy, yet I haven't solved my problem. Here is some more
> information for you. Thanks for helping me.

I retried it and succeeded in archiving and reading messages
again.  When I think of it now (I'm not quite sure of all,
though), it doesn't seem to be related to the marks nor to the
change you pointed out as follows:

>>>>> In <m3llmk7auy.fsf@zeus.intra.softace.dk> Jarl Friis wrote:

> I further figured out that the following lines where removed from
> 5.8.8 to 5.10.6 in nnfolder.el (approx. line 600):
> ----------------------------------------------
> 	;; The group doesn't exist, so we create a new entry for it.
> 	(push (list group (cons 1 0)) nnfolder-group-alist)
> 	(nnfolder-save-active nnfolder-group-alist nnfolder-active-file))
> ----------------------------------------------

In addition, there seems to be no problem in the newsrc entry
for your archive group, except that it suggests there's no
article.

>> (assoc "nnfolder+archive:all" gnus-newsrc-alist)

> => ("nnfolder+archive:all" 6 nil nil (nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t) (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail-softace/sent-mail/") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail-softace/sent-mail/active")))

I guess there might be another "archive" method in the
`gnus-server-alist' variable and it might be used by some groups
other than the archive group.  For instance, in the .newsrc.eld
file, if `gnus-server-alist' contains

("archive" nnml "")

and a certain nnml group uses it in `gnus-newsrc-alist' as

("nnml:some" 1 (...) (...) "archive" (...))

rather then

("nnml:some" 1 (...) (...) "nnml:" (...))

, there's no problem to use the group, but the error you've
reported first will occur with the real archive group.  I've
ever experienced a similar accident actually, though I don't
know why it occurred.  The way to fix it is only to edit the
.newsrc.eld file manually.

If it is possible, please show me personally your .newsrc.eld
file.  I may be able to write a Lisp program to fix it.