mairix 'G b c' trouble (was Re: mairix problem: "No new messages found" upon initial indexing)

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Sun Sep 07 2008 at 16:20, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> 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

Argh!  Now I see and understand that bit in the info manual at (info
"(gnus) Setting up mairix")

>>  /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).

Thanks!  Now mairix indexes messages, and I'm slowly adding various dirs
to be indexed.  Now there's a problem within gnus :-/

Here's the nnmairix stuff in my ~/.emacs (I keep my gnus settings
there instead of ~/.gnus)

,----[ ~/.emacs ]
| ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
| ;;
| ;; nnmairix - mail indexing and searching
| ;; see ~/.mairixrc and (info "(gnus) nnmairix")
| 
| (require 'nnmairix)
| (defun my-check-mail-mairix-update (level)
|   (interactive "P")
|   ;; if no prefix given, set level=1
|   (gnus-group-get-new-news (or level 1))
|   (nnmairix-update-groups "mairix-server" t t)
|   (gnus-group-list-groups))
| 
| (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 'my-check-mail-mairix-update)
| 
| (setq gnus-auto-subscribed-groups
|       "^\\(nnml\\|nnfolder\\|nnmbox\\|nnmh\\|nnbabyl\\|nnmaildir\\).*:\\([^z]\\|z$\\|\\z[^z]\\|zz$\\|zz[^_]\\|zz_$\\).*")
`----

Start gnus, then in my Group buffer after all mail is retrived after
startup, I do 'G b c' (nnmairix-create-server-and-default-group) and give
it these four answers:

mairix-server [it matches the arg of nnmairix-update-groups above]
nnml          [from (info "(gnus) Configuring nnmairix")]
mairix        
mairix-group  

and I immediately get this error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil-open-server)
  nil-open-server(nil)
  apply(nil-open-server nil)
  nnmairix-create-server-and-default-group()
  call-interactively(nnmairix-create-server-and-default-group nil nil)

Quit out of the error, then running 'g' in the Group buffer returns this
message after retrieving my other mail:

,----[ *Messages* ]
| Server mairix-server not opened
`----

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

bw
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