Re: Ghost e-mail groups

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

Shane Holder <holder@rsn.hp.com> writes:

> It seems like a real difficult way to get a group that doesn't
> really do anything.  A user that is new to Gnus isn't going to
> figure this out, and while I took a hiatus from Gnus I used gnus for
> several years and don't recall having to do anything this intensive
> to get a new group.  I'm really not trying to be difficult on this,
> but it does seem more difficult than it should.

I agree. However, creating a new group/backend _is_ simple. What you
really want to do here and what Kai suggested that you should do is to
create a new backend that doesn't live in the same directory as one of
your other backends. Having several backends in the same directory is
a Bad Thing since they want exclusive ownership of a file called
"active". It's just too bad all backends default to the same
directory.

It would be neat if nnml+foo defaulted to live in ~/Mail/nnml+foo,
nnfolder+bar defaulted to ~/Mail/nnfolder+bar etc.

Changing a default like this carry a huge price tag though, so I guess
this isn't a practical solution...