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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: mairix problem: "No new messages found" upon initial indexing
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:20:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r67viqzb.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prnfhe84.fsf@wolfram.com> (Bill White's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:51:07 -0500")

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
> 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;
>
> ,----[ ~/.mairixrc ]
> | base=/home/billw/wri/Mail-2006
> | maildir=gunroom
> | mfolder=zzz_mfolder
> | mformat=maildir
> | database=/home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/mairix_database
> `----

nnml stores its mail in MH format, not maildir. So you have to use

mh=gunroom
mformat=mh

>  /home/billw/wri/Mail-2006/zzz_mfolder
> hasn't been created (should I do that by hand?

It will be created if it doesn't exist. If you plan to use the nnmairix
back end for Gnus, you don't have to specify 'mfolder' at all (but it
does no harm, either).

-David



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-07 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-07 20:51 Bill White
2008-09-07 21:20 ` David Engster [this message]
2008-09-08  2:55   ` mairix 'G b c' trouble (was Re: mairix problem: "No new messages found" upon initial indexing) Bill White
2008-09-08  9:04     ` mairix 'G b c' trouble David Engster
2008-09-10 21:24       ` Bill White
2008-09-11  9:35         ` David Engster
2008-09-11 19:39           ` Bill White

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