bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory"

[Andreas Schwab]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> So there's a bug somewhere. Who is setting nntp-marks-file-name to nil
> and why?

nntp-marks-file-name is a backend variable.  Look in
nnoo-definition-alist whether it is modified by some backend.

Andreas.

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