Re: released mairix backend nnmairix.el

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

"Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@fsfeurope.org> writes:

> I just had a look at nnmairix.el to integrate it with org-mairix.el, but
> could not yet get it to run here. The problem seems to be in the
> handling of paths somewhere, and is probably not too hard to fix.

I had exactly the same problems. 

How I found my way thru them is still a mystery, so I cannot help that
much, but here is my setup:

,----[ ~/.mairixrc ]
| base=/home/guerry/Mail
| mh=misc
| mh=mail...
| mbox=archive/????-??-divers-mail:archive/????-??-divers-news
| #mh=expired...
| mformat=mh
| database=/home/guerry/.mairix_database
| mfolder=/home/guerry/.nnmaildir/mfolder
`----

Note that I use mh as a format. For some reason, I couldn't get
something work with maildir or nnml. No idea why.

Then I created a group with no server name, called "default". 
So I have the group "nnmairix:default" in my config.

Following instructions from the doc, I added this:

(add-to-list 'gnus-registry-unfollowed-groups "nnmairix:default")

(setq gnus-auto-subscribed-groups
      "^\\(nnml\\|nnfolder\\|nnmbox\\|nnmh\\|nnbabyl\\|nnmaildir\\).*:\\([^z]\\|z$\\|\\z[^z]\\|zz$\\|zz[^_]\\|zz_$\\).*")

So that the zz* groups that nnmairix.el will create in ~/Mail are not
visible at startup anymore. 

I can browse the group nnmairix:default correctly, but there is still
something weird with the fisrt displayed number of messages: it's sth
like 45345 when it should be 143 (or so.) I guess it's related to the mh
backend.

> When looking on the disk, I see the following nnmaildir directories:
>
>      ~/.nnmaildir/zz_mairix-search-1
>      ~/zz_mairix-search-1

Yeah, same weirdness happened. As you said, there should be something
wrong in the paths handling.

I guess the best config would be to have the nnmairix default group be
the same than the one in mfolder (see ~/.mairixrc) -- how can we achieve
that? How can we have this mfolder being in maildir format?

Any hint welcome!  Thanks,

-- 
Bastien