Re: error entering cvs gnus

[Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

    Simon> Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:
    >> >> When I try to enter the cvs gnus that I upped this
    >> afternoon, I >> get:
    >> >> 
    >> >> Signaling: (file-error "Creating directory" "file exists" >>
    >> "/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old")

    Simon> So the error message was correct?

The error message may have been correct, but gnus should have
recovered from it and let me in anyway.  My complaint was that I
couldn't run gnus at all.

    Simon> Hm, what would Gnus do other than to complain?  

Let me read my other groups.

    Simon> As I see it, the directory where a nnml group lives must
    Simon> exist in order to write things into it.  If it doesn't
    Simon> exist, Gnus tries to create it.  I suspect the reason you
    Simon> haven't received the error message before is that you
    Simon> didn't write to the group (i.e. deleted or inserted
    Simon> articles).  Would that be right?

This isn't a group that mail gets sorted into; it's the archive group
that mail from another group gets expired into.  So I don't see why
gnus should be trying to write to it on entry.

    Simon> I don't think there's a bug here.

I disagree; no matter what damn fool thing the user has done she
should still be able to get into gnus.

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