From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and multiple Email servers Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:26:45 -0800 Message-ID: <87lf143z4a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <878rxjedvs.fsf@zoho.eu> <87ilwnxyqn.fsf@web.de> <87zgpzcvc4.fsf@zoho.eu> <87sfvngzfu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ee77i8on.fsf@web.de> <87h7bw7g0c.fsf@web.de> <87k0grk2yo.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wnkrmfu4.fsf@web.de> <87fsrfj5gj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r1axevz3.fsf@web.de> <8735nc6fry.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877dcojim6.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18221"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:43nXd/fC/Kd2qCBtEEWO8s2/pH0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 20:41:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msVTb-0004bK-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:41:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37844 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVTa-0002bF-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:41:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVG3-0001Rl-FV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msVFs-0007sI-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:27:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msVFo-0006vM-4E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:26:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134763 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> Okay, I think for David's benefit this is the important >> part: Michael is storing the incoming messages in an nnml >> select method, named "archive". It's entirely possible that >> this select method only exists because of Gnus defaults, and >> Michael didn't configure anything at all [...] > > I have > > (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:mail.sent") > > but also a nnfolder "archive" server that is empty. > > Maybe unrelated on both accounts ... eh Not entirely unrelated, in that your archive-group setting is sufficient to cause Gnus to create a default nnml select method for you. That could potentially contribute to the confusion, if people are trying to understand where all their select methods come from, and don't know why they have an nnml method that they never configured.