Re: nnml still tries to find a mail-source for every group

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

David S. Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:

> There is one difference between current behavior and what I had
> before, though.  In particular 2 g only gets mail for level 2
> groups.  It used to get mail for both 1 and 2.  So I have to do a 1
> g for level 1 stuff and 2 g for level 2 stuff.

I believe the first is the expected behaviour, and I can't see how my
patch could change that. You do have nnml groups on both level 1 and
2? Are you sure it's my patch that causes this change?

> So, with the latest CVS and Simon's patch, gnus-no-server is working
> the "right" way with regard to nnml groups.

Lars, should I commit it?

diff -w -u -r5.41 gnus-start.el
--- gnus-start.el	1999/11/20 03:55:47	5.41
+++ gnus-start.el	1999/11/22 18:12:29
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@
 		  gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups)
 		 (t 0))
 	   level))
-	 info group active method retrievegroups)
+	 scanned-methods info group active method retrievegroups)
     (gnus-message 5 "Checking new news...")
 
     (while newsrc
@@ -1542,7 +1542,10 @@
 		  (setcdr (assoc method retrievegroups)
 			  (cons group (cdr (assoc method retrievegroups))))
 		(push (list method group) retrievegroups))
+	    (if (member method scanned-methods)
+		(setq active (gnus-activate-group group))
 	  (setq active (gnus-activate-group group 'scan))
+	      (push method scanned-methods))
 	    (inline (gnus-close-group group))))))
 
       ;; Get the number of unread articles in the group.