infloops with nnfolder+archive [was: Re: Red Gnus v0.78 is released]

infloops with nnfolder+archive [was: Re: Red Gnus v0.78 is released]

[Danny Siu]

Steven L Baur writes:

  sb> For whatever it's worth, v0.78 still infloops[1] whenever it attempts
  sb> to deal with the nnfolder+archive server on XEmacs.  This problem did
  sb> not exist versions in v0.72 and earlier.

Is this bug fixed yet?  I am still using the old rgnus-0.66 because of this
bug....

A blueburry muffin from me to the one who fixes it....  ;-)

  sb> [1] The active file gets rewritten over and over again, all the groups
  sb> listed get opened and processed, etc.  steve@miranova.com baur
  sb> Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message. "That
  sb> Bill Clinton.  He probably doesn't know how to log on to the
  sb> Internet."  -- Rush Limbaugh, noted Computer Expert

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Re: infloops with nnfolder+archive [was: Re: Red Gnus v0.78 is released]

[David Moore]

Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
> 
>   sb> For whatever it's worth, v0.78 still infloops[1] whenever it attempts
>   sb> to deal with the nnfolder+archive server on XEmacs.  This problem did
>   sb> not exist versions in v0.72 and earlier.
> 
> Is this bug fixed yet?  I am still using the old rgnus-0.66 because of this
> bug....

	The bug is that an older Gnus was placing messages into your
nnfolder without quoting `From ' lines inside of other messages.

	You can fix it manually by editing your archive folder,
searching for `^From ', and changing ones that aren't really at the
beginning of a true message to '>From '.  It's hard to fix this
automagically, although you could maybe use a heuristic since it seems
that the real ones are followed by my Sender line in my archive at
least.

	Current gnus properly sticks the '>' before any embedded `From '
lines.  So you shouldn't have to go through this again.

> A blueburry muffin from me to the one who fixes it....  ;-)

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Re: infloops with nnfolder+archive [was: Re: Red Gnus v0.78 is released]

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "David" == David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:
>>>>> "Danny" == Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

I wrote:
sb> For whatever it's worth, v0.78 still infloops[1] whenever it attempts
sb> to deal with the nnfolder+archive server on XEmacs.  This problem did
sb> not exist versions in v0.72 and earlier.

Danny> Is this bug fixed yet?  I am still using the old rgnus-0.66
Danny> because of this bug....

Technically speaking, no.  But look at my X-Mailer: header. :-)

David> The bug is that an older Gnus was placing messages into your
David> nnfolder without quoting `From ' lines inside of other
David> messages.

David> You can fix it manually by editing your archive folder,
David> searching for `^From ', and changing ones that aren't really at
David> the beginning of a true message to '>From '.

Yup.  In the end, it took me about 10 minutes to go through 20
megabytes of mail folders.  Interactive regexp searching is pretty
fast, even when you're doubling checking everything.

David> It's hard to fix this automagically, although you could maybe
David> use a heuristic since it seems that the real ones are followed
David> by my Sender line in my archive at least.

Mine too, but aren't the saved headers user customizable?

In nnfolder+archive, the backend I had trouble with, the only valid
`From ' lines all start off `From nobody'.

David> Current gnus properly sticks the '>' before any embedded `From '
David> lines.  So you shouldn't have to go through this again.

I hope so.  But who knows what the early versions of Mamey Sapote Gnus
will do? :-)
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