Hello again,

Contrary to what I reported about hacking .newsrc.eld to fix this,
further attempts to do so have failed. Depending on how I hack things,
I get variously errors about missing directories, or groups with no
mail, etc.

I even tried moving my ~/Mail directory out of the way and “restarting”
to see if I could get an example of what a clean setup would look like.
That wasn't fruitful.

I also tried making some other method (nndiary) my primary select
method so that the nnml: prefix would be expected. Also not fruitful.

I've now got a whole bunch of useless

  *,   0: nnml:group-name

groups *and*

  2, 234: group-name

groups. Which is kind of annoying.

I'm happy to have nnml: if that's what makes nnir happy. And I would like
to get nnir working with notmuch since that seemed to do a quite nice job
for the actual searching.

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> This message is a kind of carry on to my message about searching. I wanted
> to try notmuch. Historically I use gnus just for email (all nnml). So my
> gnus-select-method is:
>
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
>
> Well, I also have:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nndiary "")))
>
> but I haven't actually used nndairy in a while. My group display is:
>
>      0, 229: acmecorp
>      0,   7: acmecorp.engineering
>     38, 194: acmecorp.discuss
>
> etc.
>
> The setup instructions for nnir, suggested doing this:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""
>                                 (nnir-search-engine notmuch)
>                                 ))
>
> When I restart gnus, I get all of my existing groups, but I also get these
>
>   2342,   0: nnml:acmecorp
>    222,   0: nnml:acmecorp.engineering
>   3332,   0: nnml:acmecorp.discuss
>
> I don't actually care about the nnml: prefix, but I'd like to have a
> single list and I'd like not to loose all my existing marks.
>
> Anyone have any idea why my change had the effect that it did? Or how
> to get it fixed?
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
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> http://nwalsh.com/            | spring from human stupidity, human
>                               | malice and those great motivators and
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                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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