Re: Gnus archive group processing is broken

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The default value for `gnus-message-archive-method' is "archive".  If
>     you have an (nnfolder "") and an (nnml "") method, both will use
>     ~/Mail/active as the active file, which will confuse both nnfolder
>     and nnml.
>
> Would it be a good idea to detect that case and call display-warning
> or do something else?

Yes, it would.  It's not trivial to detect, though.  Let's see...  if
`nnml-server-opened' and `nnfolder-server-opened' both are true at
some point, and both use the same directory, then a warning could be
displayed.

Perhaps the right place would be after scanning for new news.  I've
now done this in the development Gnus, and we'll see how that goes... 

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen