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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Something breaking batch command - possilbe `marks' related [or] Boot strap mania
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:26:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluy9o5l061.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17kvptkbz.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:43:28 -0700")

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>     WHERE does this come from?
>
> Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Updating marks for mail-0801...
> Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Bootstrapping marks for mail-0801...
> Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Creating mail directory /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/
> Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Could not write to /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/.marks ((file-error Opening output file not a directory /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/.marks)).  Continue? (yes or no) Error reading from stdin

Looks like you have a nnml server and a group "mail-0801".  Not
correct?

> (setq gnus-message-archive-group
>       '((let ((current-archive-date-string
> 	       (format-time-string "%m%y" (current-time))))
> 	  (concat (if (message-news-p)
> 		      "news-"
> 		    "mail-")
> 		  current-archive-date-string))))

What is the `gnus-message-archive-method'?

> These files appeared in ~/Mail recently:
> -rw-r--r--    1 reader   reader       3314 Aug 27 01:02 mail-0801
> -rw-------    1 reader   reader        315 Aug 27 01:02 mail-0801.nov

It looks like a nnfolder in the same directory as the nnml server
above.  Do you have two servers using the same directory?  Look in the
server buffer to find out.  I don't think the marks stuff is creating
new groups.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-27 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-27 18:43 Harry Putnam
2001-08-27 20:26 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2001-08-28  0:28   ` Harry Putnam

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