Re: isync plus dovecot?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:


[...]

> I'm now able to access most mail through gnus, with one strange
> exception: I've got several imap accounts, with a separate server per
> account, and when I go into the individual servers via the *Server*
> buffer they all look something like this:
>
> 22879: INBOX
>     0: [Gmail]
>     0: [Gmail]
>     0: [Gmail]
>     0: [Gmail]
>     0: [Gmail]
>     0: [Gmail]
> 8127: [Gmail]/Sent Mail
>
> I'm guessing the empty entries represent Drafts, Important, Sent Mail,
> Spam, Starred, and Trash, because each account only has Gmail's standard
> folders (I haven't used imap before).  I suspect it has something to do
> with the fact that the dovecot invocation in both mbsync and gnus looks
> like:
>
> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o
> mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/account1/:LAYOUT=fs:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=$HOME/.mail/indexes/account1
>
> Is it likely that separating the indexes from the mailboxes would
> confuse gnus (or the gnus-dovecot conversation)?

I tried moving the indexes for one of the accounts back under the main
directory for that account, with no effect. I also changed
gnus-ignored-newsgroups as per
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc3, but that hasn't changed
anything (and anyway, the "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" group would have been
blocked out if that were the issue).

Still all the empty [Gmail] groups, and in the *Group* buffer each
account only shows three groups: INBOX, and [Gmail]/Sent Mail, which
behave normally, and [Gmail], which is empty.

I also noticed that the value of nnimap-split-methods was being ignored.
I tried respooling a random message, and after choosing the backend and
server, it gave me this error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  decode-coding-string(nil utf-8)
  nnimap-decode-gnus-group(nil)
  nnimap-request-accept-article(nil "Girzel" t)
  gnus-request-accept-article(nil (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)) t t)
  eval((gnus-request-accept-article nil (quote (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy))) t t))
  nnimap-request-move-article(9208 "INBOX" "Girzel" (gnus-request-accept-article nil (quote (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy))) t t) t nil)
  gnus-request-move-article(9208 "nnimap+Girzel:INBOX" "Girzel" (gnus-request-accept-article nil (quote (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy))) t t) t nil)
  gnus-summary-move-article(nil nil (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)))
  gnus-summary-respool-article(nil (nnimap "Girzel" (nnimap-stream shell) (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/girzel/:LAYOUT=fs") (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)))
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-respool-article nil nil)

This was from the INBOX group, so I'm not sure why the group name was
nil, but hopefully it's all part of the same problem...

E