Re: infloops with nnfolder+archive [was: Re: Red Gnus v0.78 is released]

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "David" == David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:
>>>>> "Danny" == Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

I wrote:
sb> For whatever it's worth, v0.78 still infloops[1] whenever it attempts
sb> to deal with the nnfolder+archive server on XEmacs.  This problem did
sb> not exist versions in v0.72 and earlier.

Danny> Is this bug fixed yet?  I am still using the old rgnus-0.66
Danny> because of this bug....

Technically speaking, no.  But look at my X-Mailer: header. :-)

David> The bug is that an older Gnus was placing messages into your
David> nnfolder without quoting `From ' lines inside of other
David> messages.

David> You can fix it manually by editing your archive folder,
David> searching for `^From ', and changing ones that aren't really at
David> the beginning of a true message to '>From '.

Yup.  In the end, it took me about 10 minutes to go through 20
megabytes of mail folders.  Interactive regexp searching is pretty
fast, even when you're doubling checking everything.

David> It's hard to fix this automagically, although you could maybe
David> use a heuristic since it seems that the real ones are followed
David> by my Sender line in my archive at least.

Mine too, but aren't the saved headers user customizable?

In nnfolder+archive, the backend I had trouble with, the only valid
`From ' lines all start off `From nobody'.

David> Current gnus properly sticks the '>' before any embedded `From '
David> lines.  So you shouldn't have to go through this again.

I hope so.  But who knows what the early versions of Mamey Sapote Gnus
will do? :-)
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