Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I think much of this could be prevented by using different defaults
>> for different backends, or (like nnmaildir does) by requiring the user
>> to explicitly specify a directory in the server parameters.
> 
> It's too late now.  Imagine the huge number of people out there with
> (nnml "") in their gnus-secondary-select-methods.

Yeah.  Just wishful thinking, I guess.

>> Putting it in the active file would mean we aren't protected against
>> other Emacsen, but in that case a nonpersistent variable will do; it
>> doesn't need to be saved anywhere.
> 
> Maybe some crooked mind does something like this:
> 
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>              '(nnfolder "a"
>                 (nnfolder-directory "/tmp/a")
>                 (nnfolder-active-file "/tmp/active")))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods 
>              '(nnfolder "b"
>                 (nnfolder-directory "/tmp/b")
>                 (nnfolder-active-file "/tmp/active")))

Well, marking the directory (by whatever means) won't help there.
Should there be a gnus-occupied-active-files as well?


paul