From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38520 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: self contained nnfolder Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 18:48:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r8tqim9w.fsf@uwo.ca> <87zo8efblz.fsf@uwo.ca> <87ofotfv4x.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174370 22964 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8216 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 16:48:55 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 16:48:55 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA24619; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:48:27 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA18773; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 320F22097; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dan Christensen In-Reply-To: <87ofotfv4x.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2001 11:51:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 67 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38520 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38520 Dan Christensen writes: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > >> gnus-secondary-select-methods should >> also be nil, or, if you want your foreign nnfolder server to also be >> secondary, use '("nnfolder:"). > > This didn't work. I got an error that "nnfolder:" wasn't a list. > (And I did include the parentheses around it.) So I've set > gnus-secondary-select-methods to ((nnfolder "")). Will this > cause me some problems? Hm. You have (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("nnfolder:"))? And that doesn't work? Strange, I remember somebody doing something similar, and it worked back then. >> Edit your .newsrc.eld (while Gnus is >> not running) to remove whichever entry from gnus-server-alist you >> don't want to use. > > I don't want to use "archive", but when I removed it from > gnus-server-alist I got an error message when Gnus started, even > though the string `archive' didn't appear anywhere in my .newsrc.eld > or my .gnus. When I remove the "" entry, everything was fine. > Is this a bug in gnus? It seems to have `archive' hardcoded > somewhere. I think normally people aren't supposed to set gnus-server-alist manually. I think Gnus looks is there is an archive server when it starts up. If an archive server is missing, it creates one. Now, maybe you set gnus-server-alist after Gnus created the archive server? Then Gnus got very confused that the archive server was missing even after it created it. See the variable gnus-message-archive-method. But you already know about that. >> Edit your .gnus to make >> gnus-message-archive-method nil; > >> I think the above should work if you don't use >> gnus-message-archive-group. If you do, then >> gnus-message-archive-method must be non-nil. It might work to set it >> to "nnfolder:"; I'm not sure. If it has to be a select method and not >> a server name, then use the select method that is >> (cdr (car gnus-server-alist)). > > I've got it set to (nnfolder ""). Hm. No, that doesn't sound right. Or is (nnfolder "") without further parameters your normal mail select method? Then it could be right. But then, when you change your mail select method, you'll want to change gnus-message-archive-method, too. > If someone could write an overview of this stuff in the manual, > that would be great. I find it incredibly confusing, even after > reading all of the messages here. I think that you were working around the way Gnus wants to work, by setting gnus-server-alist manually. Maybe it is possible to achieve what you want to achieve without dragging Gnus kicking and screaming through your .gnus file? kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature