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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> The specific calling sequence which leads to this is:
>    gnus-activate-group -> gnus-find-method-for-group -> gnus-server-to-method
> The group information obtained certainly appears correct, at first
> glance, as reported during edebug of gnus-find-method-for-group:
> 	("nnml:personal.jprc" 1 ((1 . 1)) nil "nnml:")

Yup, `gnus-server-to-method' fail to map a virtual server name to a
method if the server hasn't been opened (which typically would be the
case if you do `gnus-no-server'). Could you try this patch?

(Another fix would be to revert my patch in 0.52, but then you'd have
to fix `u' in the browse server buffer. And you also wouldn't have the
feature of being able to edit your `gnus-secondary-select-methods' and
have the new setting take effect on your old folders.)

--- lisp/gnus.el-	Thu Dec 24 01:22:38 1998
+++ lisp/gnus.el	Thu Dec 24 02:42:13 1998
@@ -2365,7 +2365,14 @@
 		 (not (equal server (format "%s:%s" (caaar opened)
 					    (cadaar opened)))))
        (pop opened))
-     (caar opened))))
+     (caar opened))
+   ;; It could be a named method, search all servers
+   (let ((servers gnus-secondary-select-methods))
+     (while (and servers
+		 (not (equal server (format "%s:%s" (caar servers)
+					    (cadar servers)))))
+       (pop servers))
+     (car servers))))
 
 (defmacro gnus-method-equal (ss1 ss2)
   "Say whether two servers are equal."