From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68538 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmairix configuration Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 14:01:48 -0400 Message-ID: <87k54qm9yr.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <87zldm5hui.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <871vqymbhj.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241892180 30073 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2009 18:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 18:03:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16969@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 09 20:02:50 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 1M2qsP-0002Vn-MO for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 20:02:21 +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 1M2qs3-0000q4-VH; Sat, 09 May 2009 13:02:00 -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 1M2qs2-0000pd-Bb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 May 2009 13:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M2qrw-0007RJ-2J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 May 2009 13:01:58 -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 1M2qsN-0007LV-00 for ; Sat, 09 May 2009 20:02:19 +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 n49I1oW6018126 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 19:01:50 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id E05613201C; Sat, 9 May 2009 19:01:50 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68538 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > Dan Davison 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 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