From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: IMAP groups created but folders unsub'ed on server Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:57:02 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <878ysjc7lt.fsf@katrine.aae.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054666583 27710 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 18:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1539@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 03 20:56:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NGwC-00078b-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19NGxt-00008J-00; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19NGxl-00008A-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 70677 invoked by alias); 3 Jun 2003 18:56:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 70672 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2003 18:56:48 -0000 Original-Received: from katrine.aae.uiuc.edu (128.174.132.87) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 18:56:48 -0000 Original-Received: by katrine.aae.uiuc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 770AFC3AA5; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:57:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52995 Lately I've been trying to convert from using spool files and nnmail to communicating with an IMAP server via nnimap. Aside from the aesthetics of INBOX and .foo.bar subfolders, I'm pretty happy with how this works, but there's one behavior I don't understand well enough for my modest purposes. I'm running Gentoo Linux, using postfix to deliver outgoing mail, and have installed Courier IMAP. I retrieve incoming mail with fetchmail and deliver it through procmail to ~/Maildir, which the IMAP server is happy to call INBOX. Both Gnus (v. 5.10.3) and the SquirrelMail client manipulate the messages in INBOX just fine, so I suppose I can't have things too fouled up. But if I could leave well enough alone, I wouldn't be running Gnus in the first place. Suppose I add a rule to nnimap-split-rule that directs a message to an IMAP folder that doesn't already exist. New or respooled mail will be sent to that folder, but I can't find it (the folder) in Gnus (which probably means I'm looking in the wrong place). If I quit Gnus and start SquirrelMail, the latter's Folders screen offers a list of folders that are subscribed or unsubscribed (from the IMAP server's point of view), and I can easily subscribe to the new folder that was created through Gnus. If I now quit SquirrelMail and start Gnus, Gnus notices the new folder and offers to subscribe it as a group. I would like to avoid the SquirrelMail step if possible. Should Gnus take care of subscribing the folder on the IMAP server automatically? I don't know a lot about IMAP, and I've probably mangled the vocabulary horribly here, but perhaps someone can tell me how to ask Gnus to ask the IMAP server to subscribe to a new folder. Thanks for any help. Best regards, Michael