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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

> I have two nnml groups where I archive "interesting" messages
> encountered in email and Usenet.  The groups are located on a special
> `save' nnml server, customized to save the files to a directory out of
> the normal mail hierarchy.
> 
> The saving method is simple: I simply press `B c nnml+save:news-stuff
> RET' (or :mail-stuff if it's a mail message).  Until recently, this
> works flawlessly.  However, after upgrade to 5.8.6 or thereabouts,
> this results in the following question:
> 
>     No such group: nnml+save:news-stuff.  Create it? (y or n)
> 
> Daunted by the question, I press C-g

Could you enable debug-on-error and mail the backtrace?

It's probably my patch from 2000-03-01 that's causing this.  You could
see if 5.8.4 work.

Hm.  I think I know what causes it, but the theory would only be
correct if your nnml+save:news-stuff group is a foreign group.  Is it?