Re: [PATCH 0/2] two minor fixes for new/empty nnimap group handling

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>>>
>>>> Could nnmairix be adjusted to make an extra call at some point to
>>>> activate the appropriate group?  Maybe it needs to call
>>>> nnimap-request-group-scan instead of nnimap-request-group, now that
>>>> 447c5 changed the behaviour of the latter?
>>>
>>> I think this is probably the right solution. I'm still convinced that
>>> nnimap should do something in the group creation process to register the
>>> group with Gnus, but you're right that your problem is likely a direct
>>> result of "request-group" getting split into "request-group" and
>>> "request-group-scan", and nnmairix not being edited to follow.
>>>
>>> I'm a little bit out of my depth here, but give this patch a whirl and
>>> see how it goes.
>>
>> Dammit, I think that was wrong. Would you try it anyway, then unapply it
>> and try this one instead?
>
> I tried the first, the second, and both, and didn't notice any change.
> (I still had your nnimap.el patches applied as 
> Here is the backtrace with the patch nnmairix-scan-imap-groups.patch
> applied.

Bah! Thanks for testing. I'm going to stop throwing patches at you until
I can get my own nnmairix installation working, and test things there.
This is a silly way of doing it.

More later...

eric