Re: Bug regarding reading sent-mail folder

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Hi,

I read your message last week and tried the same archiving method.
However, I could neither reproduce any problem nor look at the
nnfolder-group-alist variable as nil.

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

> Hello.

> I recently upgraded from gnus 5.8.8 to 5.10.6 on XEmacs 21.4.10

There is a remarkable difference between 5.8.8 and 5.10.6.
Recent Gnus uses .mrk files for nnfolder groups, for instance:

% cd ~/Mail-softace/sent-mail
% ls -aF
./ ../ active  all  all.mrk  all.nov  all~

About this, you will find a note in the GNUS-NEWS file as follows:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.

If you have tried Oort (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading
to this version.  In particular, you will probably want to remove all
.marks (nnml) and .mrk (nnfolder) files, so that flags are read from
your ~/.newsrc.eld instead of from the .marks/.mrk file where this
release store flags.  See a later entry for more information about
marks.  Note that downgrading isn't safe in general.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If .mrk files are broken, you can ignore them by setting the
nnfolder-marks-is-evil variable as t.  This may be unrelated
though.

> Now I can't read my sent mails.

> I believe I found a bug regarding regarding sent-mail. My relevant
> "~/.gnus" part is (pretty standard/default):=20

> (setq gnus-message-archive-method
>       '(nnfolder "archive"
>                  (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
>                  (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)
>                  (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail-softace/sent-mail/")
>                  (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail-softace/sent-mail/active")
>                  )
>       )
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group "all")

> When I hit the group "nnfolder+archive:all" in "*Group*" buffer. I get:

> Signaling: (error "Couldn't request group nnfolder+archive:all: No such group: all")

[...]

> I further realised that when gnus has started up, there is a
> difference of the value of `nnfolder-group-alist' variable.
> In gnus 5.8.8 this value is `(("all" (1 . 1340)))'.
> In gnus 5.10.6 this value is nil.

> 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))
> ----------------------------------------------

Hm, it has been deleted early in the Oort Gnus (2001-07-09).

> Is this a bug?=20
> Can someone help?
> Can I provide you with more information.

> Jarl
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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>