Re: (mail) articles moved between nnfolder and nnml disappear

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>]

On 11 May 1999 15:55:30 +0200 Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> On 11 May 1999 15:23:31 +0200 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> > Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> >   > It seems as if the active file is not properly updated..
> >   > 
> >   > This problem was not there when I started using nnml groups (when I used
> >   > pgnus-0.81). 
> >   > 
> >   > B.t.w.: Both the nnml and nnfolder backend share the same
> >   > directory and active file.
> > 
> > Do you have nnfolder and nnml groups with the same names?  That might
> > be problematic.  And I would suggest to make them use different
> > directories and active files anyway.
> 
> I'll give that a try...

I did, and this solved the problem right away. 

It's slightly unelegant to have a ~/Mail/nnfolder and ~/Mail/nnml directory
structure. I guess the manual should be made clearer to indicate the possible
problems of sharing a single directory for multiple backends. Maybe even the
default values for nnml-directory and nnfolder-directory etc. should be changed
to use separate directories to avoid possible pitfalls.

Jaap-Henk

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