From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65378 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: released mairix backend nnmairix.el Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:53:19 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191772490 7631 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2007 15:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: greve@fsfeurope.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13889@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Oct 07 17:54:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IeYSs-0006qY-Vz for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:54:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IeYS2-0005od-Vz; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:53:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IeYRz-0005oJ-Rv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IeYRt-00028c-OF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IeYRl-0002Cr-00 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:53:37 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IeYRb-0007HC-FZ for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:53:27 +0000 Original-Received: from musil.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:53:27 +0000 Original-Received: from de_bb by musil.physik3.gwdg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:53:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: musil.physik3.gwdg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I/7PsU6CzolEH9gGZe9XgjLuvAA= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65378 Archived-At: "Georg C. F. Greve" writes: > I think nnmairix should use 'nnml-directory' instead, which is where the > path for the mail folders are configured in Gnus, or the appropriate > variable for other backends. That's a good idea. This could be done for all backends except nnimap, where the base path in .mairixrc would still have to point to the Maildir directory the IMAP server uses. > As an added benefit, nnmairix should then also work in situations with > "mixed" backends, because they are not illegal, some people use them for > reasons that may not be entirely obvious, and nnmairix should not choke > on this, imho. Well, the nnmairix commands in group mode should already work with mixed backends, but you have to adapt all paths in your .mairixrc accordingly. Set your 'base' variable to '~/Mail' and adapt all following lines relative to this base path. If your archive mbox files are not under ~/Mail but e.g. under ~/mailarchive, you have to use something like mbox=../mailarchive/2005/*:../mailarchive/2006/* However, the commands in summary mode will not work in these archive groups, since I originally had the idea that every nnmairix server would be "responsible" for exactly one backend. I overlooked that people may use several backends for local mail but which are indexed by one mairix installation. Your idea also has the benefit that people which are uncomfortable with nnmairix creating those zz_mairix-groups alongside their normal mail folders could still create e.g. a nnmaildir server only for the mairix search folders. Regards, David