Re: nnmairix configuration

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>> I can set up an nnmairix server and perform a search, but the results
>> are not appearing in any groups in a way that I understand. This is with
>> gnus v5.13, and dovecot serving locally-stored maildirs via nnimap. The
>> only way I can think of to describe my poblem is a blow-by-blow
>> description I'm afraid.
>
> Thank you for the detailed report. 
>
>> 2. That causes a group named nnmairix+general:found to appear
>
> Could you please do a "G E" (Group info) and "M-e" (select method) over
> the group and post the corresponding outputs?

`G E'

("nnmairix+general:found" 3 nil nil
 (nnmairix "general"
	   (nnmairix-backend nnimap)
	   (nnmairix-backend-server "dc")
	   (nnmairix-mairix-command "mairix")
	   (nnmairix-hidden-folders t)
	   (nnmairix-default-group "found"))
 ((numcorr nil 0 0)
  (threads . t)
  (query "t:Princeton" "t:UNIX")
  (folder . "zz_mairix-found-1")))

M-e

(nnmairix "general"
	  (nnmairix-backend nnimap)
	  (nnmairix-backend-server "dc")
	  (nnmairix-mairix-command "mairix")
	  (nnmairix-hidden-folders t)
	  (nnmairix-default-group "found"))


>
>> 8. At this point I feel like I should be seeing those 5 search hits
>>    which I know are in .zz_mairix-found-1, and I start making it up as I
>>    go along. I try manually subscribing to .zz_mairix-found-1 ('^'
>>    followed by <space> on nnimap:dc, followed by u on
>>    .zz_mairix-found-1). A group named .zz_mairix-found-1 now appears,
>>    and 'g' causes 2 messages to appear in that group. Why 2 and not 5?
>>
>> 9. I now try a new search, resulting in 1902 hits. The group buffer is
>>    unaltered until I hit 'g' at which point 277 of the hits appear in
>>    .zz_mairix-found-1. They are all valid hits, but where did 277 come
>>    from when there were 1902 hits? And anyway, why are they only
>>    appearing in this maildir with the '.' at the beginning of its name,
>>    and not in the group that was created by `G b c'?
>
>
> It seems you are not using Dovecot with Maildir++. What are you using as
> mail_location in your dovecot.conf ? 

mail_location = maildir:/home/dan/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs

~/Maildir is a (symlink to a) directory containing several maildirs

>
> You could try creating a nnmairix server without Maildir++. This should
> at least get you the search results in the correct group. Maybe this
> does also fix your message count problem - I'm not sure what's the

Yes that seems to do it (results go to group and message count correct),
thanks again!

Dan

> problem here.
>
> Regards,
> David