From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39544 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: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:23 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87pu7irelm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175239 28560 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3339 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 11:04:21 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 11:04:21 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15utvL-0004NR-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 06:04:15 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 06:03:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA20417 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 06:03:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 3332 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2001 11:03:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3327 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 11:03:58 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 11:03:58 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id f9KB3SG21490; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:28 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA05901; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:23 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 6E38A2019; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Matt Armstrong In-Reply-To: <87pu7irelm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (Matt Armstrong's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:48:53 -0600") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39544 Matt Armstrong writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >> The trouble is with people who do this: >>=20 >> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) >> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder "")) >=20 > And I just spent hours discovering that this happens by default if you > have: >=20 > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "")) >=20 > And then "B c" a message into an nnfolder:FOO directory. They both do > stuff in ~/Mail. I.e. FOO gets added to ~/Mail/active. Yes, this is quite bad, for nnml, nnfolder and nnmh all want to use the same files and directories. You were right that `B m' to a non-existing server magically creates it, using the default settings. But it seems indeed that a variable gnus-occupied-files would be just right. It could contain directory names and file names. And when Gnus tries to create another server using one of these, a warning or error message can be issued. kai --=20 Lisp is kinda like tpircstsoP