Re: Gnus mangles one of my group names

[Reiner Steib]

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  (Maybe we can even drop emacs-pretest-bug?) ]

On Tue, Oct 12 2004, Klaus Zeitler wrote:

> All of a sudden (since about 2 weeks) one of my nnml groups (called bridge)
> gets mangled every time a new mail arrives.
>
> When I receive a mail, that Gnus is supposed to distribute to this group,
> Gnus instead creates a new group with the odd name "bridge?bridge".
> I think there's some ascii character, maybe C-j, between the duplicated group
> names.
> The active file then additionally contains a new entry:
> --- snip ---
> bridge\
> bridge 1 1 y
> --- snip ---
>
> an ls in ~/Mail shows something similar as new group name:
> bridge?bridge

What is the output of "ls -b"?

> The old group remains unaffected. Everything's still there and the entry in
> active file is also ok.
>
> I noticed this the first time right after Gnus in CVS emacs got updated. I
> haven't changed anything in my gnus configuration for months.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?

Could you show us your mail splitting setup (or the relevant parts of
it)?

Bye, Reiner.
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