Re: secondary select method same as archive method?

Re: secondary select method same as archive method?

[Kai Großjohann]

Rob French <fulcrum99lists@earthlink.net> writes:

> 1) Is there any problem with setting gnus-secondary-select-methods to use
> the same nnml virtual server as gnus-archive-method? I currently have 
> two nnml virtual servers, nnml+private and nnml+archive. Currently, all
> incoming mail goes into groups in nnml+private, while outgoing mail is
> split into various groups in both nnml+private and nnml+archive. From a
> logical standpoint, I see no need to have both virtual servers, so I 
> want to move all the mail from one over to the other and just have one.
> Again, will this cause a problem for that virtual server to be listed in
> both gnus-secondary-select-methods and gnus-archive method?

My suggestion is to use a fully qualified group name for
gnus-message-archive-group and not to bother with
gnus-message-archive-method at all.  This has been working well for
me for years now.

For example, (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml+private:outgoing").
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