Re: nnml has become nnmbox???!!

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Tue May 13 2003 at 11:54, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) said:

> Weird.  What does the server buffer say?  What's the value of
> gnus-secondary-select-methods, and of gnus-select-method?

> Can you remove the superfluous nnmbox server via the server buffer?

On Tue May 13 2003 at 13:15, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

> Well, something (or someone) must have done something to add an
> nnmbox server to your setup.  Look in the server buffer, or the
> .newsrc.eld file and see whether anything there looks suspicious.

. o O ( Oh man, they're never going to believe me... )

This beats the hell out of me.  I started gnus this afternoon and nnml
is back in action.  I'd like to blame it on what I've been smoking,
but I've only been smoking Marlboro Lights.  I dunno.

During the weirdness this morning I checked
gnus-secondary-select-methods and it was what it is now, which made no
sense at all - there was no mention of nnmbox:

,----[ C-h v gnus-secondary-select-methods RET ]
| gnus-secondary-select-methods's value is 
| ((nnml "")
|  (nntp "news.gmane.org")
|  (nntp "selenium.club.cc.cmu.edu"))
`----

I didn't happen to check gnus-select-method then; now it's

,----[ C-h v gnus-select-method RET ]
| gnus-select-method's value is (nntp "news")
`----

There was and is an nnmbox server in the Server buffer - I had to
enter it to subscribe all the new nnmbox "groups".  I also didn't
check .newsrc.eld; now its only instances of nnmbox are the existing
groups from this morning.

During the strange session this morning, could I have somehow
temporarily enabled nnmbox?  No, wait - when I loaded gnus this
morning my first download of mail from the pop server was handled by
nnmbox (and 103 messages seemingly disappeared), so maybe I stumbled
into some switch or lever in the previous session. (?)

Anyway, thanks for thinking about it -

bw
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