nnbabyl and "Can't select group"

nnbabyl and "Can't select group"

[Steinar Bang]

Platform: UltraSPARC, Solaris 2.5.1, GNU Emacs 19.34, Red Gnus 0.82

Just for trying it out, I've tried putting RMAIL babyl folders in
	~/test1
	~/Mail/test1
	~/mail/test1

To see if I could open them with
	Groups -> Foreign groups -> Make a foreign group
in the *Groups* buffer.  At the prompt for "Group name:", I've tried
with "test1", "test2", and "test3".

On all of these, I get "Can't select group" when I try to enter them,
from the *Groups* buffer.

I've been quickly reading up on RMAIL (which I haven't used since
1990) and skimming through the nnbabyl.el file, without getting any
wiser. 

I guess what I'm asking, is what RMAIL folders should be named, for
the nnbabyl backend to find them.

Thanx!


- Steinar

Re: nnbabyl and "Can't select group"

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I guess what I'm asking, is what RMAIL folders should be named, for
> the nnbabyl backend to find them.

nnbabyl is a one-file-for-all-groups backend (just like nnmbox), so it
uses `nnbabyl-mbox-file' as its repository.  

-- 
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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen