Re: nnimap subfolder problem

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@equator.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Kevin Hilman <khilman@equator.com> writes:
> 
> > If I tell Gnus to create folders with the '\' character it works fine,
> > however as new folders are created, I don't see them when i do a 'B'
> > (gnus-group-browse-foreign-server).  I can see them in the folder
> > listing of other clients (like Mozilla) though.  If I do a 'j'
> > (gnus-group-jump-to-group) and type the full group name (for example
> > nnimap+mailserver:foo\bar) I can get to it just fine.
> >
> > So, I have a couple of questions
> >
> > 1) How can the browse-foreign server pick up these folders and
> >    subfolders?
>
> It should find them automatically.  Do you see them if you do ^ and
> then RET on the IMAP server?  

No. If I use '.' or '/' as a separator, it will see those, but not when
using '\' .

> But there may be some quoting problem since elisp uses \ as a
> quoting character, and `read' is still used in some parts of
> imap.el.  Do you get anything weird in *Messages*?

Nothing suspicious in *Messages*

> > 2) Is there a way Gnus can be smarter about creating subfolders based
> >    on some existing hierarchy information?
> 
> What do you mean?  Gnus doesn't care about the hierarchy delimiter
> (and hence the hierarchy), you could use the Topic mode in the Group
> buffer to do some hierarchies though.

For example, in my nnimap-split-rule I use

  ("lists\\ding" "^Sender: owner-ding")

To put ding list messages into ding (a subfolder of 'lists') with '\'
as a separator (note it has to be escaped).

What I'd like is to have Gnus query the separator character from the
server and put it in a variable so I could then use

  ("lists" + gnus-imap-hierarchy-separator + "ding" ....)

To create folders on the server.  (I don't know lisp, so the syntax is
wrong) So it is portable across mail servers.  It took me a while to
figure out that Lotus Domino uses '\' as a separator character.

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Kevin Hilman               ---  Equator Technologies, Inc.
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