Re: using nnmairix

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Saturday,  4 Apr 2020 at 15:51, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> Do I maybe need to tell gnus to automatically subscribe to new groups?
>> gnus-auto-subscribed-groups is set to
>>
>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-auto-subscribed-groups RET ]
>> | gnus-auto-subscribed-groups is a variable defined in ‘gnus-start.el’.
>> | Its value is
>> | "^nnml\\|^nnfolder\\|^nnmbox\\|^nnmh\\|^nnbabyl\\|^nnmaildir\\|^nnimap"
>> `----
>>
>> which includes nnml but should it include nnmairix?
>
> I've added that but it seems to have only a little difference.
>
> When I search, I do see my nnmairix group appear in my group buffer but
> with "0" messages.  If I navigate to the line in the group buffer and
> hit M-G, it updates the count correctly and I can then enter the group.
>
> Rather clumsy... I'm obviously missing something.
>
> I have searched the mailing list etc.  I have the nnmairix group in my
> server buffer and I have this in my .gnus.el:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>                (quote (nnml "search" (nnml-get-new-mail nil))))
> #+end_src 
>
> where "search" is the name of my mairix server.

Well I'm sort of guessing here, but the end of `nnmairix-search' first
checks the active value of the new search group, and if it's equal to
'(1 . 0), it doesn't enter the group. The fact that you have to M-g on
the group to get the correct message count seems to confirm that the
active count is not getting set correctly when the group is first
created. The correct active value should be getting set in
`nnmairix-update-and-clear-marks', which is called right before the
group would be opened. So I guess something is going wrong in there?
Maybe you can step through that function with edebug?

Eric