From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82001 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnimap-list-pattern doesn't work? Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:53:53 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341341744 15753 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2012 18:55:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:55:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30271@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 03 20:55:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm8GC-000877-VD for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:55:41 +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 1Sm8Em-00016X-RW; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm8Ek-00016O-Ei for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm8Ei-00008U-NC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm8Eg-0004uK-Mg for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm8Eg-0005Xc-R4 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 23-25-166-11-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([23.25.166.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from carson by 23-25-166-11-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:54:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-25-166-11-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TY69gjjZI1nyqmq8Y/GZoiYRsTc= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82001 Archived-At: I'm using Emacs 24, with the built-in Gnus. Amongst other things, in ~/.gnus I have, following the manual, (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "Mailserver" (nnimap-address "mail.example.com") (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "Mail/*"))))) The nnimap-list-pattern appears to do pretty much nothing at all. Which means I probably am mistaken as to what it's doing. My assumption, based on the manual's sentence in section 6.5 [nnimap-list-pattern] is used when the server has very many mailboxes and you're only interested in a few--some servers export your home directory via IMAP, you'll probably want to limit the mailboxes to those in '~/Mail/*' then. was that this meant that Gnus simply didn't worry about anything that wasn't specifically listed. But going to the server buffer and selecting this mailserver, the first things listed are all my dotfiles, followed by the contents of ~/News and everything else. So what does nnimap-list-pattern actually do? Control what's listed in the summary buffer? (This came up while I was trying to decrease my startup time--what I really wanted to do was set gnus-check-new-newsgroups to nil.)