Re: procmail and nnfolder

[jason@mastaler.com (Jason R. Mastaler)]

"Jason R. Mastaler" <jason@mastaler.com> writes:

> > Ok, thanks for clearing this up.  However, this isn't working for
> > me.  When I fire up Gnus, it isn't moving any mail over to my 
> > 'nnfolder-directory'.  Here is what I added to .gnus
> > 
> >   (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
> >   (setq nnfolder-directory "~/gMail/")
> >   (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
> >   (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/incoming/lists/")
> >   (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder "")))
> >   (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "")
> > 
> > Procmail is adding incoming mail to ~/incoming/lists/listname.
> > The nnfolder groups I subscribed to are named "nnfolder:lists.listname"
> > Gnus does create the ~/gMail/lists directory with a zero lengh file
> > in this directory for each list, but doesn't move any mail over and
> > so it thinks I have "No more unread newsgroups". 
> 
> After much experimentation, I finally got movemail to work.  I changed
> nnfolder-directory to "~/gMail/lists/" and Gnus now moves mail from
> "~/incoming/lists/" to corresponding groups in "~/gMail/".  My problem
> seems to be solved, but still these workings seem counter-intuitive 
> to me.  By what the manual has to say about 'nnfolder-directory' I
> would think Gnus should build the nnfolder groups in "~/gMail/lists/" 
> instead given my definitions.

I just upgraded to Gnus 5.4.42 from 5.4.40, and without having changed
anything, Gnus now *does* moves mail to "~/gMail/lists/" instead of
"~/gMail/", but *also* creates a "~/gMail/lists/lists/" directory in
addition containing one zero length file for each nnfolder group.

Now, I'm quite confused.

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Jason R. Mastaler                                 jason@mastaler.com