Re: extra server for nnmairix?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Sun, Oct 31 2010, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Here's something I've never understood.
>
> I use nnmairix, happily. In the manual it says that you can choose to
> create a new backend server, or you can use an existing one. I think I'm
> doing something wrong, because it behaves weirdly no matter which option
> I choose.
>
> If I use an existing server, the search group doesn't survive the next
> gnus restart, and I have to do nnmairix-create-server-and-default-group
> all over again each time. I've figured out how to change the
> subscription level so it doesn't check my mail every time I
> search—that's nice at any rate.
>
> If I create an additional server (with a (nnml "mairix"
> (nnml-get-new-mail nil)) entry in gnus-secondary-select-methods), I
> actually see two new servers in my server list:
>
> {nnmairix:search}
> {nnml:mairix}
>
> The first is empty, the second contains killed versions of all the
> groups under my regular nnml server, plus the unkilled search group. Why
> are all those killed groups there? Why does gnus-group-jump-to-group
> show those killed groups? (I'm using the ido-completing-read interface,
> which is otherwise brilliant, but makes this "duplication" of group
> names particularly evident and annoying.)
>
> I don't care which of the two methods I use, but I'd like either one
> problem or the other to be solved. I suspect there's something wrong
> with how I'm creating the server, but I just don't know what…
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric

Maybe I should mention that the actual group where search results are
gathered is called nnmairix+search. Maybe all of this is perfectly
normal, but I'm really confused about the relationship between servers
and groups.