Re: self contained nnfolder

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

Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Hm.  You have (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("nnfolder:"))?
>> And that doesn't work?  
>
> Nope.  Here's the backtrace.  (I tried to load gnus.el to get a
> better backtrace, but got an error about gnuserv-start when doing
> so.)

Hm.  Looks like a bug, or a missing feature, at least.

>> I think normally people aren't supposed to set gnus-server-alist
>> manually.  
>
> Yes, but mine seems wrong, and I'm just trying to get it back to
> a sane state.

Ah, you're editing your .newsrc.eld.  Now I see.  I thought you had
(setq gnus-server-alist ...) in your .gnus file.

>> 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.
>
> Gnus shouldn't have any record that it existed before, since there
> is no mention of the word archive in any of my gnus related files.

Gnus creates the archive server by default!  (If
gnus-message-archive-group is non-nil.)  See the variable
gnus-message-archive-method.

So even if you don't mention `archive' anywhere in your init files, it
might still be there.

>>>> Edit your .gnus to make
>>>> gnus-message-archive-method nil; 
>>>
>>> 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?  
>
> Yes, it's my normal select method.  (I do have lots of nnfolder
> and nnmail variables set globally, but (I think) I only have one
> mail server, so hopefully that's not a problem.)

I see.

I think the best way to remove the superfluous archive server is to
tell Gnus to use a different server, instead.  For example:

(setq gnus-message-archive-method (car gnus-secondary-select-methods))

Does that work?

kai
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