Re: Archiving messages and other servers

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

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

 Lars> Joao Cachopo <jcachopo@gia.ist.utl.pt> writes:

 Lars> Hm.  `B nnfolder RET archive RET' gives you the groups in
 Lars> "~/Mail/active"?
 >> 
 >> Yes.

 Lars> If you go to the server buffer (`^' in the group buffer) and
 Lars> edit the archive server, what does it look like?

Well, I think I have everything working now....
I cleaned .newsrc.eld by hand and looked into gnus.el a little bit.

As I have gnus-message-archive-group set to nil (I use
gnus-outgoing-message-group instead), the function
gnus-archive-server-wanted-p always returned nil.

Therefore gnus-read-active-file never tried do get
~/Mail/archive/active.
However, as I have some groups from nnfolder+archive: I think gnus
opened a (nnfolder "archive") server, distinct from "archive" which is
by default on gnus-server-alist.

I solved my problem setting gnus-secondary-select-methods to
'("archive" (nnml "")).

Unfortunately, to answer Lars question I removed "archive" and screwed
it up again :-(

In my .newsrc.eld some of the nnfolder+archive groups had "archive" on
the method (or is it server?) and others had (nnfolder "archive").
I edited it manually so that all of them have now "archive".

Reading gnus.el I came to know (maybe its in the manual, I didn't
check) that the secondary-methods are possible answers to `B'.

`B archive RET' gives me the ~/Mail/archive/active list of groups as
expected.

However, `B nnfolder RET archive RET' still gives me the ~/Mail/active
list though.  Is this the intended functionality?
After this command, `^' shows me two {nnfolder:archive} servers.
Editing one of them shows me the correct parameters from
gnus-server-alist.  Editing the other gives error.

(Is this message somehow understandable?)
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