Re: gnus-summary-move-article problem may be a .newsrc.eld problem.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> After poking around in the source and annotating a bunch of it with
> "message" statements, I got the impression that the problem might be
> that my newsrc.eld had some groups that looked like this,
> 
>   ("nnml+rlb:inbox"
>    2 (...)
>    (nnml "rlb"
>          (nnml-directory "~/.gnus/mail/incoming")
>          (nnml-active-file "~/.gnus/mail/incoming/active")))
> 
>   ("nnml+rlb:gnucash"
>    2 (...)
>    (nnml "rlb"
>          (nnml-directory "~/.gnus/mail/incoming")
>          (nnml-active-file "~/.gnus/mail/incoming/active")))
> 
> and others that looked like this
> 
>   ("nnml+rlb:sw.g-wrap" 2 nil nil "nnml:rlb")

[...]

> One question I have is, is the "expanded" server format prohibited for
> groups with the same server?  If not, then I suppose there's probably
> some other bug still lurking that I only masked.

It should not be -- Gnus uses `gnus-server-equal' to see whether two
servers are equal or not, and it should understand both formats.

What does

(gnus-server-equal
 '(nnml "rlb"
         (nnml-directory "~/.gnus/mail/incoming")
         (nnml-active-file "~/.gnus/mail/incoming/active"))
 "nnml:rlb")

evaluate to?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen