Re: Spurious "no such group" question following `B c'

[Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> wrote:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
> 
> > I have two nnml groups where I archive "interesting" messages
> > encountered in email and Usenet.  The groups are located on a special
> > `save' nnml server, customized to save the files to a directory out of
> > the normal mail hierarchy.
> > 
> > The saving method is simple: I simply press `B c nnml+save:news-stuff
> > RET' (or :mail-stuff if it's a mail message).  Until recently, this
> > works flawlessly.  However, after upgrade to 5.8.6 or thereabouts,
> > this results in the following question:
> > 
> >     No such group: nnml+save:news-stuff.  Create it? (y or n)
> > 
> > Daunted by the question, I press C-g
> 
> Could you enable debug-on-error and mail the backtrace?
> 
> It's probably my patch from 2000-03-01 that's causing this.  You could
> see if 5.8.4 work.
> 
> Hm.  I think I know what causes it, but the theory would only be
> correct if your nnml+save:news-stuff group is a foreign group.  Is it?

        Recently, I started to get a similar behavior, but I'm not sure if
it's related. Just, it looks like something close: when I start Gnus (I use
Topic mode), I normaly get new mails, but no news for any secondary news
server. I then type `L' which forces displaying all groups, and discover that
these news groups have a star instead of the number of articles in their group
buffer line. I then type `g' again, and this time get the news.


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