Re: 1) Trying to use `nnfolder' 2) Remote access

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> écrit:

> > Following a suggestion from Horvje, I would like trying `nnfolder' to
> > access a lot of Babyl files from within Gnus (and take advantage of MIME
> > and many other features), but do not find the magic incantations to get
> > it up running from my `.gnus' file.

> Did I really say that?  I think I suggested the use of `nnbabyl', but
> then you said that `nnbabyl' was unable to edit files, which I think
> is wrong (but I haven't tried it!)  Anyway, I may have suggested
> nnfolder as an *alternative* to nnbabyl files.

Most probably.  I found a script, in a directory I made for doing such
tests, which converts many Babyl files to mbox format, exactly those I
wanted to play with `nnfolder'.  So maybe I realized and forgotten that
I had to move away from Babyl to use `nnfolder'.

But I never really succeeded in using it.  For example, the active file
contained a lot of `nil' groups, Gnus was refusing to open most of the
groups, and other strangeties.  This is why I was asking if someone has
some working setup that I might try to mimic to start with, at least to
understand a bit what is normal and what should be reported as a bug.

I understand that all folders should be brought into a common directory,
and I'm ready to create many symbolic links from a common place if this is
required.  (There might be in the order of 2000 to 3000 groups if I ever
complete this job.)  But how should I get the whole thing into motion?
The manual does not help me much about it.  I presume I would know how
everything interrelates if I had fought enough to write a few backends,
but as a mere user, I feel a bit lost about how to proceed.

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