Re: [PATCH 0/2] two minor fixes for new/empty nnimap group handling

["Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>]

On July 6, 2015 4:45:46 AM CEST, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
>
>> The recent nnimap speedups introduced a couple of regressions wrt
>> new and empty nnimap groups. This prevents Gnus from creating new
>> IMAP groups.
>>
>> These two patches fix the problems for me, but are created in the
>> way I usually do lisp: by mindless trial and error until emacs
>> stops complaining. I.e., there might be much better ways to fix
>> this...
>>
>> Anyway: Works For Me (tm)
>>
>>
>> Bjørn Mork (2):
>>   nnimap.el (nnimap-request-group): don't make nil into a list
>>   nnimap.el (nnimap-request-group): group could be empty
>>
>>  lisp/nnimap.el | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>Hi Bjørn,
>
>I'm guessing you only see this when you move a message from one group
>into a non-existent group, and you're prompted to create the new group,
>and it gives you an error. Is that right?
>
>The group actually is created, it just gives an error when it's
>re-selected. That's because the move/copy process doesn't automatically
>subscribe to the group and register it with Gnus: if you go into the
>*Server* buffer and open the group list for the server in question,
>you'll see the new group there, unsubscribed.

Yes, that's the typical situation where I see this. I didn't realise that the group isn't immediately subscribed to.

Btw, does this mean that copying to any unsubscribed group will fail, or am I misunderstanding? If not, then that doesn't seem right. I do have a couple of use cases where it makes sense to move or copy into groups which I'm not interested in subscribing to.

>My feeling is that groups which are created as part of the article
>move/copy process should be automatically subscribed to, and registered
>with Gnus (ie entered into gnus-newsrc-hashtb). That would solve this
>problem, and also seems like the Right Thing to Do.
>
>Does anyone have any opinions on this? I'll work up a patch, if not.

Sounds perfect to me. Thanks


Bjørn