Archiving messages and other servers

[Joao Cachopo <jcachopo@gia.ist.utl.pt>]

Hi!

I'm using Gnus 5.2.37, but my problem started while using a previous
version (5.2.31, I think).

In order to archive my messages, I use gnus-outgoing-message-group set
to a function, and gnus-message-archive-group set to nil.

The function used on gnus-outgoing-message-group puts sent messages on
the group I were when sending it (for some of my mail groups) or else
on groups like nnfolder+archive:{mail,news}.%YY-%MM (as suggested
somewhere).

This works pretty well...

However, sometime ago, I decided to create some other groups on
nnfolder+archive: to where I would B m some of the messages I read on
other groups.

I don't remember what I did exactly (it has been some weeks now that I
messed it up), but Gnus started to complain that it couldn't find some
files.  It turned out to be that it was trying to access something
like ~/Mail/mail/1996-07 (as if the group was an nnml file).

After a while I decided to remove ~/Mail/archive/active (I don't
remember why, but I had a good motive back then :-) and presently it
only have one line 'mail.1996-07 7 1 y' (created by mail sending
during this month).

Moreover, when I (B)rowse the nnfolder+archive group it shows me all
my nnml groups (it seems that nnfolder-active-file is ~/Mail/active).

Is there anyway to regenarate my archive/active file (other than by
hand) ?

What's going on with the archive server ?

Browsing gnus.el I see that on gnus-setup and some other functions
Gnus is testing whether I'm using an archive server
(gnus-archive-server-wanted-p), which I think is returning nil
(according to my reading of the function, I didn't debug-on-entry it).

Am I supposed to had "archive" to the secondary-methods ?
(Actually I've done this already, and it didn't help, but my setup is
pretty much messed up :-()

Anyone has any suggestion ?

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