Re: Using nnimap

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

jerome.marant@free.fr (Jérôme Marant) writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Do you really get INBOX, or is it nnimap:INBOX, or nnimap+Free:INBOX?
>> Please be precise.
>
>   I'm sorry to bother you with this.

It was my problem.  I hadn't realized that you had this as the primary
select method, and therefor "INBOX" _was_ precise, already.

Please excuse.

>> Ah, oh.  I now remember that nnimap is your primary select method.
>> Then, of course, you will see INBOX.
>
>   Are primary and secondary select method conceptually different?
>   What's the difference? 

Differences I can think of: groups from primary servers have names
without prefix, eg INBOX (a secondary group would be nnimap:INBOX, for
instance).

If you start Gnus with M-x gnus-no-server RET then it will not connect
to the primary server, only the secondary ones.

That's it, basically.

>> Please say precisely in extremely long-winded boring detail what
>> happens.  I don't know what you mean by "nothing".  I'm sure that
>> Emacs will react in _some_ way when you use C-u RET.
>
>   After typing "A A", I do subscribe to INBOX with "u".
>   Then, I do "L" and I can see INBOX in the susbribed groups list.
>
>   0:INBOX
>
>   When I type "g" or "M-g" on INBOX, gnus tells me that there are no
>   news.
>
>   When I use C-u RET on INBOX, gnus tells me that it cannot enter
>   the Group.
>
>> It's supposed to be simple.  It looks as if you did everything right.
>> I don't know what might be wrong.
>
>   I tried:
>
>   (setq gnus-message-archive-method
>       '(nnimap "Free"))
>
>   but I don't know if this is mandatory and it did not change anything
>   anyway.

What you have told above looks as if the group in question was empty.
Can you check with a different IMAP client whether you have mail at
all?  Or maybe send yourself a test message.

But if you know for sure that you have some mail in your IMAP inbox,
but Gnus doesn't see it, then something is wrong.  Alas, I have no
idea what that could be.

>> Normally, adding (nnimap "" ...) to gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> should be enough.
>> 
>> The only unusual thing I see is that you put (nnimap ...) in
>> gnus-select-method, so nnimap is your native server.  Maybe not many
>> people have tested this.  It has happened before that some things
>> don't work so well when nnml or nnimap are used as native server.
>
>   I will try to use it as a secondary method.
>   BTW, what was problematic in nnimap as a primary method?

I don't remember the problems exactly.  I'm sure if you really wanted
to know, you could search for the words "native" and "primary" in the
archives of the Gnus mailing list...  But there will be a lot of
hits.  Might be boring to find out.

kai
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