groups on different fs - error symlinking

[Marco Parrone <marc0@autistici.org>]

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Hi, I think that I've found a bug in Gnus.

I use Gnus for newsgroups and mail, and I use the nnml backend.

In the ~/Mail directory there are a directory for each nnml group, and
I've moved 2 groups to another filesystem, replacing the original
directories with 2 symlinks to the directories on the other filesystem.

So, I received a duplicate, a message that goes to a group on a
filesystem and a group on another filesystem, so Gnus tries to do a
symlink from the 1st group to the 2nd, and it gives the following
message:

nnml-save-mail: Adding new name: invalid cross-device link, /home/marco/Mail/cm-crew-admin/155, /home/marco/Mail/mbox/99

I know that I can set Gnus to make it to save the 2 messages and not
to use a symlink, but I think that it should behave differently: IMHO
it should renounce to do a symlink and should save the 2 messages, and
it should give a warning and not an error.

emacs-version: GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2003-03-13
on marc0host.dyndns.org

(from the CVS)

Gnus is the one distributed with Emacs:

gnus-version: Gnus v5.9.0

Why someone would have some groups on another fs?  So he can have the
personal mail on a cryptographic filesystem and the mailing lists on
faster, bigger, non-cryptographic filesystem.

Thanks

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Marco Parrone - marc0@autistici.org
www.autistici.org/marc0
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