Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:

> On 13-11-27 06:16 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> Actually, at least in the git version of gnus, ‘nnir’ seems to feature
>>>> support for ‘notmuch’ (ie. there is a defcustom ‘nnir-notmuch-program’
>>>> and a defun ‘nnir-run-notmuch’).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Thanks to both of you for pointing that out! I had no idea that was
>>> there, but would definitely prefer using a more gnus-y interface. I set
>>> it up like so:
>>>
>>> (setq nnir-method-default-engines  '((nnimap . notmuch) (nntp . gmane)))
>>>
>>> And gave it a shot.
>>
>> Bleagh, I'm giving up on this. I re-syncd some of my accounts via
>> dovecot, without the LAYOUT=fs flag, because that seemed to be causing
>> me more problems elsewhere, with no discernible benefit.
>>
>> Now all my groups are prefixed with a ".", and there is no INBOX in the
>> filesystem at all -- the messages that appear to be in the INBOX group
>> from within gnus are located in the top-level "cur/" directory for the
>> account. So any messages found from that directory break nnir, because
>> there's no group name at all.
>>
>> Back to the notmuch interface...
>>
>> E
>
> I tried to get nnir and notmuch working last night, but didn't get
> anywhere either.  Issuing a search query via "G G" gives me following
> error:
>
> "nnir-retrieve-headers: Unknown header type nil while requesting articles
> of group nnmaildir+gmail:gmail.Inbox"
>
>
> As it turns out my setup is quite similar to yours in some aspekts. I
> also habe several accounts under one maildir or whatever this
> "top-maildir" is called. Like this: mail/acc1, mail/acc2, ... .  The
> gmail account also has folders with dots in its names.
>
> For now I try to go for the notmuch interface as you do, as this seems
> simpler to me.  But this actually poses me with a different problem:
> Doing a (require 'notmuch) in my initfile seems to somehow invalidate my
> posting styles.  Now, upon composing new mails or news, I always get the
> same content in the message-buffer (that is the buffer in message-mode I
> write my mail in) that is not related to anything in my
> `gnus-posting-styles'. It adds something like Gcc: mymailbox/sent to the
> headers, which is far from anything I configured in
> `gnus-posting-styles'.
> Did you experience something similar with your setup?

The Gcc thing is something notmuch does automatically, and you can stop
it with:

(setq notmuch-fcc-dirs nil)

I haven't seen any other interference with posting styles, and I require
notmuch before setting gnus-posting-styles. Are you composing mails by
using "m" in gnus, or "C-x m" elsewhere? I just went and checked, and
group-specific posting styles still work for me, when I have point on a
group and hit "C-u m"...