mairix problems

mairix problems

[prad]

i've been trying to get mairix working today and it does (works great
from shell (superfast on 2G) - but i can't see the results with nnmairix.

there is ~/Mail and ~/Mail/inbox (cur/ tmp/ new/ and dovecot indicies)

in .gnus:
(require 'nnmairix)

in .mairixrc:
base=~/Mail
database=~/.mairixdb
mfolder=default
maildir=inbox
mformat=maildir
omit=zz_mairix-*

then setting up the group with G b c
name of mairix server: test
back end server: nnimap:Mail
command: mairix
default search group: def
work with maildir++: yes and no -- doesn't seem to make much difference

this produces a group:
nnmairix+test:def

what happens is that i do a search with G b s and it finds the 60 items it
is supposed to (verified by doing this on the shell).

the links go into 
~/Mail/zz_mairix-def-*/cur/ (maildir++ is no)
~/Mail/.zz_mairix-def-*/cur/ (maildir++ is yes)

and always there is created ~/Mail/inbox/.zz_mairix-def-*/ with
cur/
new/
tmp/
dovecot.index.log
dovecot-uidlist
maildirfolder

however, i can't go into the group
nnmairix+test:def

nor does it come up automatically as indicated in the manual:
"Prompts for query which is then sent to the mairix binary. Search
results are put into the default search group which is automatically
displayed"

so it seems i'm missing a piece somewhere since mairix is doing its job
both out of gnus and in it. what can be done?

(btw, i also tried nnir with imap, but couldn't get the group to open -
but that's another story)

-- 
in friendship,
prad

Re: mairix problems - [solved]

[prad]

prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:

> so it seems i'm missing a piece somewhere since mairix is doing its job
> both out of gnus and in it. what can be done?
>
the key apparently was to change my 
base=~/Mail
to
base=~/Mail/inbox

that way instead of creating zz files in both Mail and inbox, everything
goes into inbox and it works beautifully!

now the issue would be that we have all these zz files cluttering up the
inbox which is likely why the manual suggests an alternative for people
who don't like this sort of thing: 
"if you're uncomfortable with nnmairix creating new mail groups
alongside your other mail, you can also create e.g. a new nnmaildir
server exclusively for mairix."

-- 
in friendship,
prad