Re: released mairix backend nnmairix.el

[David <de_bb@arcor.de>]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>> I've had some problems trying to set it up... some zz* groups popping up
>> from nowhere, but I guess it's because of my poor knowledge of Gnus.
>
> Okay, I think it was related to `gnus-auto-subscribed-groups'.

Yes. This happens when you use nnmairix with nnmaildir or nnml backends
(see also the documentation on the emacswiki, it is mentioned
there). You'll have to turn off auto-subscription completely, or you
might use the following (ugly) kludge which still auto-subscribes all
mail groups, except those that begin with 'zz_':

(setq gnus-auto-subscribed-groups
  "^\\(nnml\\|nnfolder\\|nnmbox\\|nnmh\\|nnbabyl\\|nnmaildir\\).*\
:\\([^z]\\|z$\\|\\z[^z]\\|zz$\\|zz[^_]\\|zz_$\\).*")

(Note to the Gnus developers: It would be much easier if I could just put
".*:zz_mairix-.*" into gnus-options-not-subscribe, but
gnus-auto-subscribed-groups precedes it in the function
gnus-matches-options-n, so that doesn't work.)

>One thing: each time I check for new messages with `g', the search is
>performed again (even with the group being hidden). So I have to find
>the group and assign an empty query "" to it. This is a bit awkward.

Just set your nnmairix groups to a lower group level (using 'S l' in the
group buffer), so that it isn't updated when you hit 'g'. A level of '4'
or '5' should do the trick (it depends on your value of
gnus-activate-level). 

>Sorry to continue on my own but a nice feature to have for nnmairix.el
>would be to let the user build the query *interactively*, thus letting
>him use the full potential of mairix.
>
>Something of this flavor:
>
>(defcustom nnmairix-interactive-query-parameters
>  '(from to cc subject body attachment timespan)
>  ...)
>
>What do you think?

Well, you can already create queries interactively based on the current
article using "S g" in summary mode. However, that's only for creating
permanent nnmairix groups but could be easily extended. Your suggestion
would be even more flexible. I definitely will look into that.

Thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated!
-David