Re: released mairix backend nnmairix.el

[David <de_bb@arcor.de>]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> David <de_bb@arcor.de> writes:
>
>> The 'mfolder' setting in .mairixrc has no effect on nnmairix since it
>> always calls the mairix binary with the "-o" option for setting the
>> output folder manually on the command line (see also my reply to
>> Georg).
>
> Yes I know. My suggestion was to take care of this mairix-specific
> option in nnmairix.el and tell the nnmairix backend to use this
> directory as the default group.  Does that make sense?

Oh, I see. The problem is that the mairix installation may be on a
remote IMAP server where mairix is called via ssh (that's what I do), so
Gnus doesn't have access to the .mairixrc-file. But I will use the
directory in the server definition of the mail backend, as suggested by
Georg.

>I can browse the group nnmairix:default correctly, but there is still
>something weird with the fisrt displayed number of messages: it's sth
>like 45345 when it should be 143 (or so.) I guess it's related to the mh
>backend.

The problem is that mairix often doesn't produce consecutive article
numbers in the output folder when using mh. Since Gnus takes the
difference between the highest and lowest article number as the first
value for the numbers of articles, it is often way too high. When Gnus
actually enters the group, it should correct the number. I don't see how
to I could fix this problem in nnmairix.el (at least I'd say it's much
easier to fix this in mairix itself).

Regards,
David