* Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
@ 2007-11-27 19:01 Tassilo Horn
2007-11-27 19:22 ` Paul Jarc
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From: Tassilo Horn @ 2007-11-27 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hi all,
I've switched from nnimap to OfflineIMAP, and it works quite nice. But
there's one problem. Gnus doesn't see the (maildir) groups that contain
a space in the group name, like
INBOX.Junk Mail
INBOX.Sent Items
My config is as follows:
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
'(nnmaildir "Fastmail"
(directory "~/Mail/Fastmail")))
~/Mail/Fastmail is where all nnmaildir groups reside. I think this is
the right way to use it, right?
Is there something I can do that gnus can see those two groups?
(I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
Bye,
Tassilo
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2007-11-27 19:01 Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name Tassilo Horn
@ 2007-11-27 19:22 ` Paul Jarc
2007-11-27 19:43 ` Tassilo Horn
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From: Paul Jarc @ 2007-11-27 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> (I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
> name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
> Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
The interface between Gnus and its backends (such as nnmaildir)
involves some data being passed as space-delimited text, instead of as
structured values. So spaces won't work in group names, regardless of
which backnd you use.
paul
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* Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
2007-11-27 19:22 ` Paul Jarc
@ 2007-11-27 19:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson
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From: Tassilo Horn @ 2007-11-27 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
Hi Paul,
> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> (I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
>> name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
>> Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
>
> The interface between Gnus and its backends (such as nnmaildir)
> involves some data being passed as space-delimited text, instead of as
> structured values. So spaces won't work in group names, regardless of
> which backnd you use.
Really? At least nnimap had no problems with those groups. And out of
sudden the "nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Mail" group is there and seems
to work without problems. Only "INBOX.Junk Mail" is missing. If I say
`U' in *Group* I can tab-complete the group name, but after the RET Gnus
says "gnus-group-unsubscribe-group: No such newsgroup:
nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Junk Mail".
Bye,
Tassilo
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* Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
2007-11-27 19:43 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-28 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-02 1:29 ` Paul Jarc
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From: Simon Josefsson @ 2007-11-28 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
>> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>> (I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
>>> name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
>>> Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
>>
>> The interface between Gnus and its backends (such as nnmaildir)
>> involves some data being passed as space-delimited text, instead of as
>> structured values. So spaces won't work in group names, regardless of
>> which backnd you use.
>
> Really? At least nnimap had no problems with those groups. And out of
> sudden the "nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Mail" group is there and seems
> to work without problems. Only "INBOX.Junk Mail" is missing. If I say
> `U' in *Group* I can tab-complete the group name, but after the RET Gnus
> says "gnus-group-unsubscribe-group: No such newsgroup:
> nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Junk Mail".
Yeah, IIRC, spaces work fine in Gnus if they are escaped as foo\ bar
when they are exchanged between Gnus and nn*.
/Simon
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* Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson
@ 2007-11-28 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-02 1:29 ` Paul Jarc
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Tassilo Horn @ 2007-11-28 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
Hi Simon,
>> Really? At least nnimap had no problems with those groups. And out
>> of sudden the "nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Mail" group is there and
>> seems to work without problems. Only "INBOX.Junk Mail" is missing.
>> If I say `U' in *Group* I can tab-complete the group name, but after
>> the RET Gnus says "gnus-group-unsubscribe-group: No such newsgroup:
>> nnmaildir+Fastmail:INBOX.Junk Mail".
>
> Yeah, IIRC, spaces work fine in Gnus if they are escaped as foo\ bar
> when they are exchanged between Gnus and nn*.
In the meantime I've added
nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub(' ', '_', foldername)
to my ~/.offlineimaprc, so "INBOX.Junk Mail" becomes "INBOX.Junk_Mail"
etc. which works nicely.
Bye,
Tassilo
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-28 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2007-12-02 1:29 ` Paul Jarc
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From: Paul Jarc @ 2007-12-02 1:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> Yeah, IIRC, spaces work fine in Gnus if they are escaped as foo\ bar
> when they are exchanged between Gnus and nn*.
Here's a patch. Tassilo, does this work for you?
paul
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Index: lisp/nnmaildir.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/nnmaildir.el,v
retrieving revision 7.14
diff -u -r7.14 nnmaildir.el
--- lisp/nnmaildir.el 25 Oct 2007 08:17:54 -0000 7.14
+++ lisp/nnmaildir.el 2 Dec 2007 01:17:22 -0000
@@ -883,7 +883,9 @@
pgname (nnmaildir--pgname nnmaildir--cur-server pgname)
group (symbol-value group)
ro (nnmaildir--param pgname 'read-only))
- (insert (nnmaildir--grp-name group) " ")
+ (insert (gnus-replace-in-string
+ (nnmaildir--grp-name group) " " "\\ " t)
+ " ")
(princ (nnmaildir--group-maxnum nnmaildir--cur-server group)
nntp-server-buffer)
(insert " ")
@@ -910,7 +912,9 @@
(insert " ")
(princ (nnmaildir--group-maxnum nnmaildir--cur-server group)
nntp-server-buffer)
- (insert " " gname "\n")))))
+ (insert " "
+ (gnus-replace-in-string gname " " "\\ " t)
+ "\n")))))
'group)
(defun nnmaildir-request-update-info (gname info &optional server)
@@ -998,7 +1002,7 @@
(insert " ")
(princ (nnmaildir--group-maxnum nnmaildir--cur-server group)
nntp-server-buffer)
- (insert " " gname "\n")
+ (insert " " (gnus-replace-in-string gname " " "\\ " t) "\n")
t))))
(defun nnmaildir-request-create-group (gname &optional server args)
@@ -1160,7 +1164,7 @@
(insert "\t" (nnmaildir--nov-get-beg nov) "\t"
(nnmaildir--art-msgid article) "\t"
(nnmaildir--nov-get-mid nov) "\tXref: nnmaildir "
- gname ":")
+ (gnus-replace-in-string gname " " "\\ " t) ":")
(princ num nntp-server-buffer)
(insert "\t" (nnmaildir--nov-get-end nov) "\n"))))
(catch 'return
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