Re: nnmairix configuration

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> I can set up an nnmairix server and perform a search, but the results
> are not appearing in any groups in a way that I understand. This is with
> gnus v5.13, and dovecot serving locally-stored maildirs via nnimap. The
> only way I can think of to describe my poblem is a blow-by-blow
> description I'm afraid.

Thank you for the detailed report. 

> 2. That causes a group named nnmairix+general:found to appear

Could you please do a "G E" (Group info) and "M-e" (select method) over
the group and post the corresponding outputs?

> 8. At this point I feel like I should be seeing those 5 search hits
>    which I know are in .zz_mairix-found-1, and I start making it up as I
>    go along. I try manually subscribing to .zz_mairix-found-1 ('^'
>    followed by <space> on nnimap:dc, followed by u on
>    .zz_mairix-found-1). A group named .zz_mairix-found-1 now appears,
>    and 'g' causes 2 messages to appear in that group. Why 2 and not 5?
>
> 9. I now try a new search, resulting in 1902 hits. The group buffer is
>    unaltered until I hit 'g' at which point 277 of the hits appear in
>    .zz_mairix-found-1. They are all valid hits, but where did 277 come
>    from when there were 1902 hits? And anyway, why are they only
>    appearing in this maildir with the '.' at the beginning of its name,
>    and not in the group that was created by `G b c'?


It seems you are not using Dovecot with Maildir++. What are you using as
mail_location in your dovecot.conf ? 

You could try creating a nnmairix server without Maildir++. This should
at least get you the search results in the correct group. Maybe this
does also fix your message count problem - I'm not sure what's the
problem here.

Regards,
David