From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67332 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: mairix problem: "No new messages found" upon initial indexing Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:51:07 -0500 Message-ID: <87prnfhe84.fsf@wolfram.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220821445 30475 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 21:04:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:04:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15783@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 07 23:05:00 2008 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 1KcRRM-0003Vr-4h for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:05:00 +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 1KcRPO-0000Vo-Hh; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcRMd-0000UO-MV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcRMb-0002Uq-9I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KcRMd-0006s2-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:00:07 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KcRMY-0003eS-Jo for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 12-203-99-32.client.mchsi.com ([12.203.99.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: from billw by 12-203-99-32.client.mchsi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:00:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12-203-99-32.client.mchsi.com X-Phone: 217-398-0700 x 234 X-Fax: 217-398-0747 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3xTPFbj8ZFCpm6XvfVSoWuk4jFo= X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67332 Archived-At: Howdy - I installed mairix yesterday after reading about it in the emacs NEWS file. I'm trying to get it to do an initial indexing of my email, but it won't cooperate. Here's what it reports: ,----[ shell ] | [Sun Sep 7 15:37:34 CDT 2008] [billw@billw-desktop ~]$ mairix -v | mairix 0.21, Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Richard P. Curnow | mairix comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. | This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it | under certain conditions; see the GNU General Public License for details. | | Finding all currently existing messages... | Starting new database | 0 newly dead messages, 0 messages now dead in total | No new messages found | [Sun Sep 7 15:38:57 CDT 2008] [billw@billw-desktop ~]$ `---- Here's my config file, based on /usr/share/doc/mairix/dotmairixrc.eg. "/home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/gunroom" is an nnml dir containing 837 message files and no subdirs; /home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/zzz_mfolder hasn't been created (should I do that by hand?) and neither has /home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/mairix_database ,----[ ~/.mairixrc ] | base=/home/billw/wri/Mail-2006 | maildir=gunroom | mfolder=zzz_mfolder | mformat=maildir | database=/home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/mairix_database `---- (it's "Mail-2006" because I used to separate my gnus mail into year-based dirs, and Jan 2006 was the last time I bothered with that) And here's what I'm using: - ubuntu 8.04: Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 - a fresh cvs emacs checkout from yesterday: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-09-06 on billw-desktop, compiled via './configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars; make bootstrap' - gnus that ships with cvs emacs: Gnus v5.13 - mairix 0.21, Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Richard P. Curnow, installed via 'sudo apt-get install mairix' Any suggestions? Thanks - bw -- Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wolfram.com/billw "No ma'am, we're musicians."