Re: Strange problem posting to nnimap groups

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

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes:
>
>> It's really strange.  People at my site enter an nnimap group, hit
>> `a' to post a message, check that the right Newsgroups header is
>> present, and hit C-c C-c.  
>
> They _check_ that the right Newsgroups header is present?  Does
> that mean that it is usually there by default?

I think the Newsgroups header is auto-inserted depending on the
nnimap-news-groups server parameter.  But then, there is some
home-grown Lisp code which also inserts a Newsgroups header for some
of my colleagues.  So some of them have two headers.

> This does not happen to me, which is primarily why I resort to using
> Outlook via VMware when I need to post articles to IMAP groups.

Wow.  It's so easy to just enter the Newsgroups header...  You can
make a keybinding for it.

> Perhaps it is a feature of latest CVS versions (mine is dated
> 2002-05-17)?  Or do I need to configure something to make this work
> (if yes, why doesn't it work that way by default)?
>
>> And then they get a message that the group does not exist.
>
> FWIW, there at least was (I don't have foreign groups at the moment
> so I cannot check) a somewhat related problem when one does not
> enter a group (no matter if it's nnimap or foreign nntp server or
> whatever) but uses C-u a in the group buffer.

We have only checked entering the group and then hitting `a'.

> The result is different from first entering the group and then
> hitting a, which is what I would expect.  That is, the select method
> is not the select method of the group but the default select method
> (gnus-select-method).

This is what happens for us.

> I don't know :(  I just checked and it happens to me as well (in
> addition to me not getting a Newsgroups header, but perhaps this is
> precisely because gnus-current-select-method is nnml (my default
> select method) and not nnimap, the select method of the group where
> I hit `a').

Hm.  Before hitting `a', they have gnus-current-select-method equal to
(nnimap ...) -- which is from gnus-secondary-select-methods --, after
hitting `a' in the newly created message buffer,
gnus-current-select-method is equal to (nntp ...) -- which is from
gnus-select-method.

kai
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