Re: mairix 'G b c' trouble

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Mon Sep 08 2008 at 04:04, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>> Thanks!  Now mairix indexes messages, and I'm slowly adding various dirs
>> to be indexed.  Now there's a problem within gnus :-/
> [...]
>> Start gnus, then in my Group buffer after all mail is retrived after
>> startup, I do 'G b c' (nnmairix-create-server-and-default-group) and give
>> it these four answers:
>>
>> mairix-server [it matches the arg of nnmairix-update-groups above]
>> nnml          [from (info "(gnus) Configuring nnmairix")]
>> mairix        
>> mairix-group  
>
> My guess is that just entering "nnml" as the back end server is not
> enough. You should do TAB completion for the available back end
> servers. Only those servers that are shown in the completions will
> work.

TAB at this point in the process:

   Back end server (TAB for completion): 

gives me the message:

   [Sole completion]

as if there are no servers available.  Typing, for example, 'n TAB',
hoping for a completion of 'nnml', gives the message:

   [No match]

> But I see that the documentation is misleading here; I will change that
> and also fix nnmairix so that it only accepts servers from the available
> completions.
>
> If it still doesn't work, please post your mail server entries from
> gnus-select-method and/or gnus-secondary-select-methods.

,----[ ~/.emacs ]
| (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "netnews.mchsi.com"))
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
|       '(
|         (nntp "news.gmane.org")
|         (nnml "")
|         ))
`----

Thanks, and sorry for the delay,

bw
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