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Tony Lam <Tony.Lam@eng.sun.com> writes:

> S> You're quoting things twice here.  Remove the second '.  This explain
> S> why `nnimap-list-pattern' doesn't work.
> 
> It still doesn't work, it tries to list all files in my home directory
> when I scan the server. Here's the current value of my
> gnus-secondary-select-methods:

Are there perhaps occurances of the old select method in .newsrc.eld?

Try C-k'ing your groups on the nnimap server, change the backend
definition and re-subscribe the groups with the new definition.

> |   ((nnimap ""
> | 	   (nnimap-address "imapserver.eng.sun.com")
> | 	   (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" ("Mail/nnimap/" . "*"))))

This looks fine, I think.