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Subject: Re: pop mailboxes
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Daniel Simms <dsimms@alink.net> writes:

> Pop mail spool files, which begin with "^po:", get caught by ange-ftp
> after the first *get-new-news.  It's only after the first fetching
> since nnmail-get-new-mail loads ange-ftp's password reading function
> halfway through the first pass.

I don't see why ange-ftp should meddle with file names that start with
"po:".  What effects are you seeing?

> While respooling old mail, I noticed that splitting into a
> non-existant group isn't so useful.  Is there some way to get gnus to
> auto-create non-existant groups?

If you have the mail backend as a secondary server, `F' will subscribe
you to all new groups.  (New groups are created on the fly.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen