Re: Gnus-5.8.7 new groups status "*", can't enter; "Incoming*" files

[Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:23:07 -0400, dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) said:

David> He also needs to ensure nnml-get-new-mail is set to nil in the
David> archive message.  If that's not explicitly done, I can see why
David> that server thinks it owns the new mail groups.  

But the problem seems to be that setting these vars even within the
definition of the archive behavior actually sets the variables that
all new groups get, as per the output from "Ge".

That's the thing that seems odd, and has caused the "can't find file"
problem: setting the active file to Mail/out/ in the archive
definition "leaked" out to affect how the attributes of newly found
mail groups and made them unreadable.

The same appeared true with the nnml-get-new-mail: the newly
found/created group had that attribute set as well. Obviously not what
I want for normal mail groups.