Experiences with 0.31

Experiences with 0.31

[Johan Danielsson]

I decided to try a slightly newer version of Gnus the other
day. Although most things worked fine, I found one problem that has
now caused me to switch back.

For some reason Gnus sometimes like to set `nnml-directory' to
"~/Mail/archive", which is wrong. The only reference to that directory
is in my gnus-message-archive-method, which looks like:

(setq gnus-message-archive-method
      '(nnml "archive" 
	     (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
	     (nnml-directory "~/Mail/archive/")))

The connection is obvious, but I don't expect this to change the
global variable too. Does this sound like a known problem?

/Johan

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:

> For some reason Gnus sometimes like to set `nnml-directory' to
> "~/Mail/archive", which is wrong.

No, it isn't.  Or rather, it's only wrong if this leads the nnml
directory to be somewhere other than it should be.  Does it?

-- 
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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Johan Danielsson]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> No, it isn't.  Or rather, it's only wrong if this leads the nnml
> directory to be somewhere other than it should be.  Does it?

I'd like it to have the default value of "~/Mail". With older Gnusen,
I've never had to set this variable.

/Johan

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:

> > No, it isn't.  Or rather, it's only wrong if this leads the nnml
> > directory to be somewhere other than it should be.  Does it?
> 
> I'd like it to have the default value of "~/Mail". With older Gnusen,
> I've never had to set this variable.

You don't have so set it now either.  That variable isn't a variable,
it is a slot in the virtual server definition.  It will change
accoring to what server happens to be open at any time.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Johan Danielsson]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> You don't have so set it now either.

Ok, what should I put in my gnus-select-method, if I wan't my incoming
mail in ~/Mail?

/Johan

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:

> Ok, what should I put in my gnus-select-method, if I wan't my incoming
> mail in ~/Mail?

You shouldn't have to do anything special to have your incoming mail
put in "~/Mail/".  That's the default directory for nnml.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Johan Danielsson]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> You shouldn't have to do anything special to have your incoming mail
> put in "~/Mail/".  That's the default directory for nnml.

Which works fine with 5.4.52, but with 0.31 incoming mail lands in
"~/Mail/archive", which also happens to be the value set for
nnml-directory in my gnus-message-archive-method. Clues?

/Johan

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[David S. Goldberg]

Do you have nnml-get-new-mail set to nil in your
gnus-message-archive-method definition (since I'm pretty sure that's
still nnfolder by default, it sounds like you changed it and therefore
have to fix it yourself).

Dave Goldberg
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Email: dsg@mitre.org

Re: Experiences with 0.31

[Johan Danielsson]

dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> Do you have nnml-get-new-mail set to nil in your
> gnus-message-archive-method definition

No, if this is something that has changed, I guess it might be the
problem.

/Johan