prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>>> <URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./nnmaildir/>
>>
>> Paul, I noticed  a warning on our pages about skipping versions and
>> what it might cause,          ^^^

He he... In case you were wondering how your pages got to be our
pages, it was thru the magic of typo wizardry.

[...]

>> but I see no handy way to tell which version is currently in use.
>> Nothing in the *.el file to indicate version.
>
> See the variable nnmaildir-version (which could probably be removed
> now, since nnmaildir is now in CVS).

Why such a complicated unlikely name... :-)

>
>> Also maybe a condensed version of the info on our pages as a
>> `comments' section.  Findable with M-x finder-commentary.
>
> Ah - is that simply pulled from the comment at the top of the file?  I

Yes, but there isn't currently a comment section. At least not in the
download I got.

>> There should be a private message on you incoming spool some where
>> with a detailed report, see:
>
> I haven't seen it.  Resend?

I guess I'll go ahead and air it here.  Maybe someone else will be
interested.

Excerpted from previously sent message:

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes in mesg-id:
Message-ID: <x7vgf4tk51.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>

[...]
> 
> > But now that we know that nnmaildir-save-mail is being called, I'd say
> > we probably don't need to step through it.  Instead, debug-on-entry
> > nnmaildir-request-accept-article and step through that.  (But if the
> > debugger never pops up, then that means that nnmaildir-save-mail isn't
> > calling nnmaildir-request-accept-article, so we'd need to step through
> > nnmaildir-save-mail to find out why.)  As you step through, make note
> > of the results of the controlling tests of all the "if" and "when"
> > calls.
> 
> I collected quite a bunch of data, but thought maybe better to take
> this off list.  Probably getting a little boring, and too detailed.
 
 <Maybe more appropriate here on ding>
 
> Attached is a report from debug-on-entry
> nnmaildir-request-accept-article

This was compiled before your new version was released, not sure how
much may be different now.  Just now getting the new version installed.
 
> I recorded the steps (about 45) and `c'ed thru some stuff that looked
> repetitious. Hard to know where to stop, seems like it could go on
> into infinity.  I hope this is enough to figure out something.
> 
> The report starts with a brief description of my setup.