From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26924 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Swift Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: tip if you have weird extra servers in the Server buffer Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:52:28 GMT Organization: http://www.shore.net/~swift Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164041 21937 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA27533 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:17:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB01553; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 01:17:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Nov 1999 01:17:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA11073 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 01:17:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA27523 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:16:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 23373 invoked by uid 509); 16 Nov 1999 06:52:28 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.243.167.24 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 942735148 206.243.167.24 (Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:52:28 MET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:52:28 MET Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26924 I was seeing weird stuff like this in my Server buffer of 0.98: {nnml:mail} (closed) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:lppl} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:mail.misc} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:maybe-dupes} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:tex} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:texfonts} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:texindex} (opened) {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:vfinst} (opened) {nnml:mail} (opened) I tracked it down, and this is a result of having subscribed groups to nnml+mail but with different group options. For example: gnus-find-method-for-group("nnml+mail:ctan-ann") -> (nnml "mail" (nnml-use-long-file-names t)) gnus-find-method-for-group("nnml+mail:vfinst") -> (nnml "mail+nnml+mail:vfinst" (nnml-address "mail") (nnml-use-long-file-names t) (nnml-get-new-mail nil)) Those two results should be parallel. I'm not sure exactly how I got things into this state, but I'm guessing that I edited the virtual server and added the nnml-get-new-mail specification after already having a couple of groups. To solve the problem, I edited the .newsrc.eld file by hand to make the method for each group the same. I'm not submitting this as a bug because I'm guessing that editing a v. server's parameters after there are already subscribed groups in it is one of those "features" of Gnus that I'm supposed to know better than to ever use... Also, I don't have the energy today to go confirm that is the cause. But this information may help someone seeing similar garbage in the Server buffer.