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

[Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>]

On 01 Aug 2000 04:06:33 +0200, Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> said:

Cyrille> what says G e (group->edit->info) ?

Ah ha... I think you may have hit it here.

Why does it think the nnml-directory and active-file are under
Mail/out/ instead of just Mail?

    ;;; Editing the select method for `nnml:list.fw1-wizards@phoneboy.com'.
    ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.

    (nnml ""
          (nnml-get-new-mail nil)
          (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)
          (nnml-directory "~/Mail/out/")
          (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/out/active"))

Uh huh: the only place "~/Mail/out/" appears in .gnus.el is where I to
tell it what to do with archived outbound mail, per the *Info* on
Archived Messages:

  ; How does the dir implied by gnus-message-archive-group
  ; interact with the nnml-directory used by gnus-message-archive-method?
  ; if I use (nnml "FOO) I get a virtual folder nnml+FOO which makes it
  ; annoying to Bm move sent articles to normal nnml folders.

  (setq gnus-message-archive-group
        (format-time-string "out.%Y-%m" (current-time))) ; put in "out" subdir

  (setq gnus-message-archive-method
        '(nnml ""			; no "out" prefix to prevent nnml+out:
               (nnml-get-new-mail nil)	; what's it do??
               (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)
               (nnml-directory	 "~/Mail/out/") ;LC to avoid OUT and out?
               (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/out/active")
               ))

I'm guessing the assignments are NOT local to this setq. Ahhhh...
[sound of banging head, without heavy metal music]

So I can nuke the nnml-directory and nnml-active-file lines, but I'd
like to fix it: what's the right way to tell it to put archived
outbound mail in ~/Mail/out/ or ~/Mail/out.%Y-%m?

Thanks.