Re: Creating IMAP group in subdirectory of $HOME

Re: Creating IMAP group in subdirectory of $HOME

[Simon Josefsson]

Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am able to create IMAP groups with 'G m' etc, but this puts the new
> group in my home directory on the IMAP server.  All my mailboxes (with
> the exception of INBOX) are in ~/mail on the server, so how do I get
> Gnus to create them in there?

Input ~/mail/foobar instead of foobar, at the G m prompt?

Re: Creating IMAP group in subdirectory of $HOME

[Andrew Nesbit]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Ah, you need to customize gnus-invalid-group-regexp and remove the
> '/' character.

It works.

Thankyou.

Andrew.

Re: Creating IMAP group in subdirectory of $HOME

[Kathryn Huxtable]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> writes:
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>>> I am able to create IMAP groups with 'G m' etc, [...]
>
> Ah, you need to customize gnus-invalid-group-regexp and remove the
> '/' character.  Perhaps this should be the default.

Yes, this works for me as well. So is there no way to delete a group
from the server once I foolishly create it? (Obviously I can use a
different IMAP client...)

-K