Re: Write-only IMAP mailboxes not shown

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Hello,

I just wanted to ping this issue again. Is no one able to reproduce
this, or is there simply nobody with enough spare time at the moment
to take a look at this?

Best,
Nikolaus


Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 27 2008, Nikolaus Rath wrote on gnus-bug:
>
>> On my IMAP server I have a group called "unrecognized-ham" that cannot
>> be read by anyone, but can be looked up and inserted to by anyone. As
>> the name suggests, mail in this folder is automatically analyzed to
>> correct mistakes made by a bayesian spam classifier.
>>
>> Unfortunately it is not possible to access this group with gnus. When
>> I am in a different IMAP mailbox and try to copy a message with B c,
>> gnus complains that the group does not exist. Any attempt to create it
>> fails of course. Also I cannot see the group when using group apropos
>> and I cannot subscribe to it with U.
>>
>> In Thunderbird, there is no problem at all. The group is visible and I
>> can copy messages into it.
>>
>> The IMAP server is cyrus 2.2. The group has an acl with:
>>
>> ebox:~# cyradm localhost
>> IMAP Password: 
>> ebox.rath.org> lam unrecognized-ham
>> sa-learn lrswid
>> anyone li
>> ebox.rath.org> 
>>
>> If you need more debug information, I'll be happy to provide it.
>
> I'm not an expert on IMAP, but maybe for someone else the debug output
> is useful:
>
> Set `imap-log' und `imap-debug' (*), reproduce the problem and send
> the output from the debug buffers to ding@gnus.org.
>
> (*) See the doc strings `C-h v imap-log RET' and `C-h v imap-debug
>     RET'.  Be sure to eliminate passwords.
>
>> My gnus version is
>>  - Gnus v5.11
>>  - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>>    of 2008-05-03 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
>
> Bye, Reiner.
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   -Nikolaus

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