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Subject: Re: Something breaking batch command - possilbe `marks' related
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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.