Re: Procmail, IMAP, ...

[Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> 2) I doubt that your imap server will treat those folders as mail
>    folders properly unless you're properly delivering mail to them.
>    For instance, in your procmail script you should be using something
>    like "dmail" (from the UofW server utilities) to deliver your
>    mail to imap mail boxes.  Then, you should *only* use nnimap to
>    access them (nnfolder could have serious negative effects in the
>    eyes of the imap server).

Ok.

I installed dmail from UW imap-utils. Then I tried to setup procmail
to deliver mail trough this utility :

...
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail/imap

:0
* ^TO_ding
| dmail +list.gnus.ding
...

dmail complained that the folder did not exist. So I added a `touch'
command in the above recipe to create the folder before dmail tries to
save to. Worked fined.

Then I have configured gnus with a new select method :

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
      '((nnfolder "")))
	(nnimap "ormelune"
		(nnimap-address "ormelune")
		(nnimap-imap-directory "~/mail/imap")
		(nnimap-list-pattern "mail/imap/*"))))

Fine : Gnus asked me my password at startup. When in the groups
buffer, I typed '^' to go to servers buffer, saw nnimap:ormelune,
browsed it, and subscribed to mail/imap/list.gnus.ding.

Boom : Gnus complained with `uidvalid' error. I searched into
mailing-list archive to see what that meant, saw the `G-p', cache file
and 'gnus-group-clear-data' tips from Kai G., tried them, without
success, Gnus always complaining with this error every time I tried to
access the folder.

I think I will go back in my configuration :(. Setting up IMAP on Gnus
looks to hard for me. Sigh.

Niko