Re: released mairix backend nnmairix.el

["Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@fsfeurope.org>]

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On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:17:24 +0200
David <de_bb@arcor.de> wrote: 

 d> This is because you specified the nnmaildir-server as your mail
 d> backend. However, mairix will put the search results under the path
 d> you specified with the 'base' variable in your .mairixrc.

Ah! This is the reason why it does not work for me.

In my concrete case, the mail archive is in the Archive data structure,
whereas the incoming mail structure is in Mail in my home directory.

Consequently, all search results (falsely) end up in my home directory,
where Gnus does not find them.


 d> This means, the 'base' path in .mairixrc and the base path of your
 d> mail folders have to be the same.

Considering that many people use different backends for archival and
incoming mail, I think that is not a safe assumption to make.

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.

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.

Regards,
Georg

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