From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzn6idfo.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxyrwk1w.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:43:55 +0100")
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
>> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>> (I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
>>> name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
>>> Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
>>
>> The interface between Gnus and its backends (such as nnmaildir)
>> involves some data being passed as space-delimited text, instead of as
>> structured values. So spaces won't work in group names, regardless of
>> which backnd you use.
>
> Really? At least nnimap had no problems with those groups. And out of
> sudden the "nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Mail" group is there and seems
> to work without problems. Only "INBOX.Junk Mail" is missing. If I say
> `U' in *Group* I can tab-complete the group name, but after the RET Gnus
> says "gnus-group-unsubscribe-group: No such newsgroup:
> nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Junk Mail".
Yeah, IIRC, spaces work fine in Gnus if they are escaped as foo\ bar
when they are exchanged between Gnus and nn*.
/Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 19:01 Tassilo Horn
2007-11-27 19:22 ` Paul Jarc
2007-11-27 19:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2007-11-28 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-02 1:29 ` Paul Jarc
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