From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68521 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmairix problem after nnmaildir -> nnimap switch Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:11:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87d4ajefs1.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <87hc00y3ab.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87tz40eels.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241799138 31378 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2009 16:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:12:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16954@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 08 18:12:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2SgC-00068V-8g for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 18:12:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M2SfR-0001wy-K9; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M2SfP-0001wV-Fq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M2SfJ-0001d8-6Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1M2Sfk-0007IB-00 for ; Fri, 08 May 2009 18:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n48GBBsf010982 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 17:11:12 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id E5C5B3201C; Fri, 8 May 2009 17:11:11 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87tz40eels.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Mon, 04 May 2009 23:35:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68521 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > Dan Davison writes: >> However, there is no mention of nnmaildir any longer in my gnus config, >> so I assume it must be getting an instruction to use nnmaildir from some >> persistent gnus data stored within my maildirs: I've tried renaming the >> zz_mairix-mairix-1 maildir folder, but the error message persists (and a >> new one is created). How should I get nnmairix to forget about nnmaildir? > > nnmairix is usually used as a foreign server, i.e. its information is > saved in .newsrc.eld between sessions. However, that file is not meant > to be edited by hand. > > To get rid of an existing nnmairix server, you just have to delete *all* > existing nnmairix groups and restart Gnus. Thanks David. That worked, and I was making progress, but I've now hit a similar problem. For reasons I won't attempt to justify I now have two nnmairix servers configured and I want to get rid of them and make a clean start. So my server buffer looks like {nnfolder:archive} (opened) {nnmairix:general} (opened) {nnmairix:gen} (opened) {nnimap:dc} (opened) No mairix groups appear in the group buffer as they are empty. What exactly do I have to do to make these nnmairix servers go away? I can force mairix groups to appear by subscribing to them with gnus-server-read-server followed by gnus-browse-unsubscribe-current-group, and then I can kill them. But the two nnmairix servers persist after restarting gnus (whether or not I use gnus-server-close-server to close the servers before restarting gnus). Embarassingly this is a sub-problem of what I was in the middle of posting to the list about; I am able to carry out mairix searches with these servers, but the results are not appearing in any mairix group. But I want to make a clean start before investigating that. Dan > You can then create a new nnmairix server for the new nnimap back end. > > If your Gnus won't startup anymore because of the error, you can try to > start it with a lower group level by using > > C-u 1 M-x gnus RET > > If your nnmairix groups have a level >1, they won't be checked at > startup and can then be deleted. > > Regards, > David