Re: SOLVED: unquoted group names from dovecot not shown in GNUS WAS: One folder in local imap not seen

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
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>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
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>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
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>>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
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>>>>> <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
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>>>>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
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>> A problem I've run into in the past is that Gnus parses the mailbox name
>> using (read (current-buffer)). That's supposed to chomp the whole name
>> in one go, which it does if the mailbox is quoted. But if it isn't
>> quoted, the read just chomps forward until it hits a slash, or a period,
>> or some other character that it considers to delimit a Lisp object.
>
> That explains.
>
>>
>> Right now, browsing the group list for any of my Gmail imap accounts, I
>> see this in the list:
>>
>> U      0: [Gmail]
>> U      0: [Gmail]
>> U      0: [Gmail]
>> U      0: [Gmail]
>
> Interestingly, when stepping through the code, I see several
> Gmail. occurring, but I do not see them in the listing. 
>
>>
>> Actually, those are my Spam, Trash, and Drafts groups, plus the one
>> "HasChildren" [Gmail] mailbox. They just show up broken in the browse
>> list, I think because of the problem I outlined above.
>>
>> Mind you, I'm actually able to access those groups in the *Group*
>> buffer, I assume because the groups were already entered into my newsrc
>> file.
>
> Same here - and I think I saw them in an earlier version of gnus, but I
> am not sure.
>
>>
>> It would be nice if there was a dovecot option to say "quote mailbox
>> names no matter what," but I don't know if there is. I think the spec
>> says the names must be quoted if there's a space in them, but if not
>> it's up to the server.
>
> Agreed. AS I am using offlineimap, I could use name translation rules,
> but I kind of don't like the idea here.
>
>>
>> Just to confirm this, would you mind eval'ling this version of
>> nnimap-get-groups, and seeing if it helps? It's an ugly hack from ages
>> ago, that I used when I was having this problem, but then I stopped
>> using it, I don't remember why. It's possible I used it for a while, the
>> groups were entered correctly into my newsrc, and then when I stopped
>> using it it didn't break anything, so I let it go.
>>
>> One manual edit you'll have to make is to add a ^M control character
>> where I've indicated below -- I think it wouldn't survive the email
>> trip.
>
> OK - this is working. Thanks a lot. I will add it to my .gnus.el file
> until a release of gnus which includes a fix is released.

Mostly I'm just glad because it proves I'm not crazy! When I ran into
this a year or so ago I posted to the list, and got nothing but
crickets. I didn't understand how I could be the only one having the
problem...

I'm not sure if this is the best fix (it's certainly ugly), but it does
work, and I do think it's Gnus' responsibility to handle non-quoted
mailbox names -- they are legal. I hope someone else on the list has an
opinion on the best solution...

Glad it's fixed!

Eric