Re: [nnimap] make gnus look in specific dir on server

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:

[snip!]

> Simon has gotten me lined out and I find the right area with this in
> server spec:
>   (nnimap-list-pattern ("/var/spool/imap/mail/*"))

> I made an attempt to compile my imap server to look in
> /var/spool/imap/mail by default.  I guess I botched it.  I think
> gnus is just going along with what the imap server says.

> There is probably some what to ask the UW server what is its default
> but I didn't see it in the help files that came with it.

If it hasn't changed, the UoW default behaviour is to use mbox files
stored under the user's home directory for IMAP folders.  The INBOX
folder is normally the user's mail spool file (ie. where the MTA puts
the files).

When I used it, I used procmail to store messages from mailing lists,
into mbox files under the ~/imap/ directory, and I had the following
setting in the server spec:
 		(nnimap-list-pattern
 		 ("INBOX"
 		  ("imap/" . "*")))

(I can't remember if the "imap/" showed up in the nnimap group name,
but I think it did)