Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids

[Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>]

On 13-11-27 06:16 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Actually, at least in the git version of gnus, ‘nnir’ seems to feature
>>> support for ‘notmuch’ (ie. there is a defcustom ‘nnir-notmuch-program’
>>> and a defun ‘nnir-run-notmuch’).
>
> [...]
>
>> Thanks to both of you for pointing that out! I had no idea that was
>> there, but would definitely prefer using a more gnus-y interface. I set
>> it up like so:
>>
>> (setq nnir-method-default-engines  '((nnimap . notmuch) (nntp . gmane)))
>>
>> And gave it a shot.
>
> Bleagh, I'm giving up on this. I re-syncd some of my accounts via
> dovecot, without the LAYOUT=fs flag, because that seemed to be causing
> me more problems elsewhere, with no discernible benefit.
>
> Now all my groups are prefixed with a ".", and there is no INBOX in the
> filesystem at all -- the messages that appear to be in the INBOX group
> from within gnus are located in the top-level "cur/" directory for the
> account. So any messages found from that directory break nnir, because
> there's no group name at all.
>
> Back to the notmuch interface...
>
> E

I tried to get nnir and notmuch working last night, but didn't get
anywhere either.  Issuing a search query via "G G" gives me following
error:

"nnir-retrieve-headers: Unknown header type nil while requesting articles
of group nnmaildir+gmail:gmail.Inbox"


As it turns out my setup is quite similar to yours in some aspekts. I
also habe several accounts under one maildir or whatever this
"top-maildir" is called. Like this: mail/acc1, mail/acc2, ... .  The
gmail account also has folders with dots in its names.

For now I try to go for the notmuch interface as you do, as this seems
simpler to me.  But this actually poses me with a different problem:
Doing a (require 'notmuch) in my initfile seems to somehow invalidate my
posting styles.  Now, upon composing new mails or news, I always get the
same content in the message-buffer (that is the buffer in message-mode I
write my mail in) that is not related to anything in my
`gnus-posting-styles'. It adds something like Gcc: mymailbox/sent to the
headers, which is far from anything I configured in
`gnus-posting-styles'.
Did you experience something similar with your setup?

Regards,
-- 
 Alexander Baier