lib/PublicInbox/NetReader.pm | 3 ++-
 t/lei-import-nntp.t          | 7 ++++---

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/NetReader.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/NetReader.pm
index 64910fe193eeb87275ea6f32c341077d44bf0e43..fd0d168269c25af10b9b607052eb46d59a71ea92 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/NetReader.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/NetReader.pm
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ 	unless ($self->{quiet}) {
 		warn "# $uri fetching ARTICLE $beg..$end\n";
 	}
 	my $n = $self->{max_batch};
+	my $url = $$uri;
 	for ($beg..$end) {
 		last if $self->{quit};
 		$art = $_;
@@ -650,7 +651,7 @@ 		}
 		$raw = join('', @$raw);
 		$raw =~ s/\r\n/\n/sg;
 		my ($eml_cb, @args) = @{$self->{eml_each}};
-		$eml_cb->($uri, $art, $kw, PublicInbox::Eml->new(\$raw), @args);
+		$eml_cb->($url, $art, $kw, PublicInbox::Eml->new(\$raw), @args);
 		$last_art = $art;
 	}
 	run_commit_cb($self);
diff --git a/t/lei-import-nntp.t b/t/lei-import-nntp.t
index 12bb002aa9590ead41785f6849aca248b301d8df..662da30939fa8e2b88ee64d4b3c04a64c26ad527 100644
--- a/t/lei-import-nntp.t
+++ b/t/lei-import-nntp.t
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ test_lei({ tmpdir => $tmpdir }, sub {
 	lei_ok(qw(q z:1..));
 	my $out = json_utf8->decode($lei_out);
 	is_deeply($out, [ undef ], 'nothing imported, yet');
-	lei_ok('import', "nntp://$host_port/t.v2");
-	diag $lei_err;
+	my $url = "nntp://$host_port/t.v2";
+	lei_ok('import', $url);
 	lei_ok(qw(q z:1..));
-	diag $lei_err;
 	$out = json_utf8->decode($lei_out);
 	ok(scalar(@$out) > 1, 'got imported messages');
 	is(pop @$out, undef, 'trailing JSON null element was null');
@@ -29,5 +28,7 @@ 	is_deeply(\%r, { 'HASH' => scalar(@$out) }, 'all hashes');
 
 	my $f = "$ENV{HOME}/.local/share/lei/store/mail_sync.sqlite3";
 	ok(-s $f, 'mail_sync exists tracked for redundant imports');
+	lei_ok 'ls-mail-sync';
+	like($lei_out, qr!\A\Q$url\E\n\z!, 'ls-mail-sync output as-expected');
 });
 done_testing;