Re: Bug regarding reading sent-mail folder

[Jarl Friis <jarl@softace.dk>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> In <m3aci9grq9.fsf@zeus.intra.softace.dk> Jarl Friis wrote:
>
>> What values should there be instead of `nil nil'?
>
> The first one registers the range of article numbers you've
> read, the second one registers an alist of marks and the ranges
> of article numbers.  You can see what they should be at the
> entries of groups you can read correctly.

Thanks.

> The value `nil nil' means you've never read articles and you've
> never marked articles in that group, but it is syntactically
> correct.  If you enter that group, you should be able to read
> all articles as unread.  The real problem is that Gnus doesn't
> open the group in question correctly.

Right, that is exactly the Gnus bug!

> I'm sorry that I cannot reproduce the same bad behavior.  If it
> occurs on me, I'll investigate all the Gnus functions related to
> this step by step using edebug for example.

Have you tried reproducing using the same backend (method)?

> (I personally will not use the mail directory which is not the
> default or the methods which aren't popular since I don't
> believe they have been fully tested, though.)

So what you say is that I might solve the problem by converting my
sent-mail to another backend (method of storing my sent-mail), right?

How do I do that?

Jarl

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