Re: archive to nnml group?

[Andras BALI <drewie@bigfoot.com>]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:

> You'll probably have fewer headaches if you use a group on your
> normal nnml server for archiving.  There's nothing special about
> archiving that demands a separate server.

Except that I'd like to put archived messages under ~/Mail/archived/
and other mail under ~/Mail/mail.

>> But when I'm Gcc-ing to nnml+archive:outbox, ~/Mail/outbox is
>> created, and its active file is saved as ~/Mail/active. I can enter
>> the group, "G e" says it's (nnml "archive") so everything's fine,
>> but not the directory of the group. What am I doing wrong?

> Do you have another definition of a (nnml "archive") select method?

No.

> What does your *Server* buffer look like?

Hm. I somehow managed to get it partly working (although I didn't
change a bit on the configuration I posted before) - the directory and
the active file is now created in the right place. But now (it hadn't
occured before!) the new group (nnml+archive:outbox) doesn't show up
in gnus.

Moreover, if I start gnus, the nnml "archive" server is not included
in the Server buffer, but an nnfolder "archive" server is there
(although my configuration doesn't contain anything about this
nnfolder thing, and it seems to be configured with default values as
well). But after I had posted some mail and they had been Gcc-d to
nnml+archive:outbox, the nnml "archive" server does show up in the
Server buffer, although Gnus says that it's an ,,ephemeral'' (or
sg. like this) group, which I have no idea what should mean. But
indeed, if I restart gnus, the nnml "archive" server doesn't show up
again among the servers till I post a new message.

I'm getting confused. :-) Is it such a bad idea to use the nnml
backend for archiving messages? :) Nnfolder worked fine.

Thanks,

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