On 18 November 2020 12:53, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> The only other required config is the "remove-prefix" key, which tells
> Gnus how to strip off the leading part of the absolute filename of
> search results. Right now it might require an explicit absolute path,
> not a tilde expansion, so you'd probably need:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")
>       gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nntp "news.gwene.org")
> 	(nnmaildir "yoctocell"
> 		   (directory "~/.local/share/mail/yoctocell@disroot.org")
>                    (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-mairix
>                      (remove-prefix "/<absolute>/<path>/.local/share/mail/yoctocell@disroot.org")))))
>
> That's not very reasonable, so I'll add a call to `expand-file-name' in
> a bit. But specifying an absolute file name doesn't hurt, either.
>
> Check first with `gnus-search-use-parsed-queries' to nil, and let me
> know if it still doesn't work.
>
> Eric

Thanks, now it works as expected.

-- 
yoctocell
PGP fingerprint: 9DDD 8877 BC0C A9CE 5D8F  9ED6 0F9A 432E 305F DAFF