Re: Just Deleted all my mails - How?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, Ian Swainson wrote:

> I created (in my .gnus) a secondary select method thusly:
> 
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '(
> 					(nnfolder "Archive")))

Then your nnml select method was using _directories_ ~/Mail/foo,
whereas this nnfolder select method was using _files_ ~/Mail/foo.
Since ~/Mail/foo cannot both be a file and a directory, instant
lossage resulted.

You should add server parameters to move this select method to some
other directory:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnfolder "Archive"
         (nnfolder-directory "~/mail-archive/")
         (nnfolder-active-file "~/mail-archive/active"))))

Not sure whether you need to add more parameters -- have a look in the
Gnus info file.

You know that it works if you _don't_ get an nnfolder group for every
nnml group you have.  You have to create the nnfolder groups manually
with `G m' (or they will be created automatically when you `B m' a
message to them).

kai
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