From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7329 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John McClary Prevost Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problems with nnml-groups Date: 24 Jul 1996 02:50:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147657 6840 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA05758 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:12:36 -0700 Original-Received: from olivier.pc.cs.cmu.edu (OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.250.73]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:51:50 +0200 Original-Received: (from visigoth@localhost) by olivier.pc.cs.cmu.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) id CAA11638; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:50:29 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 23 Jul 1996 08:46:13 +0200 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7329 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7329 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "")) > > I don't think you can do this. Foreign (and secondary) groups get > that prefix added to their names, and native groups do not, so > switching the nnml server between secondary and native will cause > problems. I think. If I recall correctly, I did this for a while. If you try to switch from one to the other, you can--you'll have to mung your files by hand or lose tags and other info, but it will work. Er. Or, I guess that falls under the description of "problems". John.