From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap-list-pattern doesn't work?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:03:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bojviw4p.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wr2kvfpa.fsf@peregrine.wistly.net> (Carson Chittom's message of "Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:53:53 -0500")
Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net> writes:
Hi Carson,
> I'm using Emacs 24, with the built-in Gnus. Amongst other things, in
> ~/.gnus I have, following the manual,
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnimap "Mailserver"
> (nnimap-address "mail.example.com")
> (nnimap-stream ssl)
> (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "Mail/*")))))
>
> The nnimap-list-pattern appears to do pretty much nothing at all.
I just checked out the emacs-24 branch, and the version of Gnus included
there doesn't define `nnimap-list-pattern' at all. So I'm rather sure
it does pretty much nothing. ;-)
Possibly, `nnimap-inbox' is what you want.
,----
| nnimap-inbox is a variable defined in `nnimap.el'.
| Its value is nil
|
| Documentation:
| The mail box where incoming mail arrives and should be split out of.
| For example, "INBOX".
|
| This is a Gnus server variable. See Info node `(gnus)Select Methods'.
`----
In the current Ma Gnus from git, it's documented to allow also for a
list of mail box names...
> My assumption, based on the manual's sentence in section 6.5
>
> [nnimap-list-pattern] is used when the server has very many
> mailboxes and you're only interested in a few--some servers export
> your home directory via IMAP, you'll probably want to limit the
> mailboxes to those in '~/Mail/*' then.
>
> was that this meant that Gnus simply didn't worry about anything that
> wasn't specifically listed.
The Gnus manual for the built-in version of Gnus that ships with emacs
doesn't have this description and doesn't refer to `nnimap-list-pattern'
at all. Well, except that there's an example using it in the Gnus FAQ,
which is a bug in the documentation.
Bye,
Tassilo
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2012-07-03 18:53 Carson Chittom
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2012-07-04 12:24 ` Carson Chittom
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