Re: Proper way to create new foreign groups

[Francisco Solsona <solsona@deprof.fciencias.unam.mx>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> I use a named nnml backend to process mailing lists.  I've set up
> nnmail-split-methods to sort the mail to the proper group.  What is the
> approved method of introducing new foreigh groups to gnus?

	You don't normally create (G m) new mail groups, you wait for
Gnus to show them. If you're talking about groups in a foreign server, 
for instance, then you can browse the server and use "u" to
(un)subscribe to new groups.

> 1) Use 'G m' to create the group.

	Don't do this. Gnus will create the "mail" (not foreign) group 
for you.

> 2) Set up nnmail-split-method to process the group
> 3) Wait for mail to arrive.

	That's it, that's all you have to do. Sometimes the new group
is listed as zombie (use `A Z` to list all zombie groups). What I
normally do, is check if mail has arrived to the new group, and if it
has, then I do `j <new-group>`, set its level at 2, and then enter it.

	Note that <new-group> includes the name of the backend and the 
"server name", e.g. I use the following:

      (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "private")))

so, my mail groups are named: nnml+private:mail-group-name

> I think the problem is that I use a named nnml backend in my
> secondary-select-method. 

	I don't think so, I also use a named nnml backend and I've
never had problems with it.

>  When I create the foreign group, it gets associated with the
>  default, unnamed, nnml backend.  When mail arrives, the next time I
>  enter gnus I see the group two times: once with an unnamed nnml
>  backend, and once with the named nnml backend.  Is there a better
>  way to do this?

	Yep, let Gnus take care of the creation of the group. The
problem is that a group has a name and a select method; where the
select method is a list with the first element being the backend and
the second the server name and AFAIK you cannot pass that list when
using `G m`.

hth,
Francisco
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