Problems with nnml-groups

Problems with nnml-groups

[Ville Kullervo Mattila]

I have defined two functions:

(defun gnus-avantComp-with-news-and-mail()
	"Connects to avantcomp news server. Gets news feed and personal email"
	(interactive)
	(setq gnus-select-method  '(nntp "ns2.avantcomp.fi"))
	(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
	      '((nnml "")))
	(setq gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc-avantcomp")
	(gnus))

  (defun gnus-avantComp-only-mail()
	"Gets user's personal email"
	(interactive)
	(setq gnus-select-method  '(nnml ""))
	(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods nil) ;;'((nnml "")))
	;;      '((nnml "")))
	(setq gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc-avantcomp")
	(gnus))

 My problem is that groups read articles numbering get screwed when
 starting gnus with gnus-avantComp-only-mail after using
 gnus-avantComp-with-news-and-mail, the numbering is like if it would
 be my first time reading INBOX. What I am doing wrong or is there any
 solutions to this problem. I'm using 5.2.32 gnus.

 -Ville


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Re: Problems with nnml-groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ville Kullervo Mattila <mulperi@niksula.hut.fi> writes:

> 	(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 	      '((nnml "")))

[...]

> 	(setq gnus-select-method  '(nnml ""))

I don't think you can do this.  Foreign (and secondary) groups get
that prefix added to their names, and native groups do not, so
switching the nnml server between secondary and native will cause
problems.  I think.

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Re: Problems with nnml-groups

[John McClary Prevost]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> > 	(setq gnus-select-method  '(nnml ""))
> 
> I don't think you can do this.  Foreign (and secondary) groups get
> that prefix added to their names, and native groups do not, so
> switching the nnml server between secondary and native will cause
> problems.  I think.

If I recall correctly, I did this for a while.  If you try to switch
from one to the other, you can--you'll have to mung your files by hand
or lose tags and other info, but it will work.

Er.  Or, I guess that falls under the description of "problems".

John.