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Re: Problem with maildir as backend
From: |
Wolfgang Pausch |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with maildir as backend |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:03:46 +0200 |
Hello Ted,
thanks for your help, however I not yet figured out what's wrong with my
setup.
> WP> Thanks. When I enter the server buffer and hit RET on the nnmaildir
> server, I get an empty buffer called Gnus Browse Server.
>
> Something is wrong with the server setup then, it thinks you don't have
> any subdirectories in that Maildir. Does the ".mail.misc" Maildir
> directory exist under the Maildir root of that server?
Just to make it clear for me: Is the server directory the directory given in
the secondary select method, so in my case
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmaildir "" (directory "~/maildir"))))
~/maildir would be the Maildir root of that server?
> Does it exist
> anywhere on your system?
No. I created it under ~/maildir (including the subdirs new, cur and tmp),
however this didn't help.
> How is the server configured?
The contents of which variables do you mean here?
> Can you try
> making a new nnmaildir server if the Maildir exists?
I added a new secondary select method, also nnmaildir, directory ~/maildirnew
with subdirectories new, cur, tmp. It shows up in the server buffer, but the
server seems to contain no mail.misc either.
> The Maildir should have been created persistently on disk, and should be
> visible when you browse the server. AFAIK browsing the server does not
> use the newsrc file to list the groups, it talks to the server directly.
>
> WP> Are there some other files where information about mail.misc is /
> should be stored, or how does gnus administrate this group?
>
> AFAIK the newsrc.eld file,
It doesn't contain the term mail.misc
> your Lisp-based Gnus configuration, and the
> physical Maildir presence on the disk are what defines that mail.misc
> group.
I also tried moving .newsrc.eld to a backup, apt-get remove emacs22, apt-get
install emacs22. gnus is part of the emacs22 package on my system. When I
first exited gnus, it generated a new .newsrc.eld, however, this didn't help
either.
Am I right, that after the installation of emacs/gnus, it must execute some
code for setting up things like the mail.misc group? If yes, is this code
written in lisp, and do you know where the starting point is.
Overwriting / regenerating the complete configuration of gnus would be
perfectly ok for me, as I didn't yet make anything except setting things up in
gnus.
Wolfgang
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