From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30874 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnfolder has me baffled Date: 12 May 2000 11:01:34 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2npuqr93w0.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <200005121739.TAA13005@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167351 10813 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:29:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Shenghuo ZHU , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70282D051E for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 14:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB10130; Fri, 12 May 2000 13:02:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 May 2000 13:01:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12810 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 13:01:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from halfdome.holdit.com (halfdome.holdit.com [209.102.105.64]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDE2D051E for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 14:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by halfdome.holdit.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA22817; Fri, 12 May 2000 11:01:34 -0700 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 19:39:34 +0200 (MET DST)" Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30874 >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: Kai> Hm? If you type `rm foo', do you expect the system to delete the file Kai> `foo.c' instead? No, I expect it to delete "foo". Kai> When Gnus asks you for a server, and you enter the server name, why Kai> should it choose a different server than the one you entered? I did a G M of "arch.todo" and "nnfolder". I expected this to create an nnfolder thing "somewhere". As it turns out, it creates it in the same directory as my "nnml" did, and they can't tell from each other who owns the directory. Apparently the value for nnfolder-directory "out of the box" is the same as the value for nnml-directory "out of the box", so the two servers fight over the same named files and directories. If it breaks things, then it should either be disabled, or red-flagged. I'm no dummy, and I ended up creating some nasty overlaps. How in the world do you expect a *beginner* to get this? How would it have occured to me to use "arch.todo" and "archive" instead of "nnfolder", when I see "nnfolder" in the list of backends for mail in the manual, and not "archive"? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!