From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9368 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2022 18:02:51 -0000 Received: from lists.gnu.org (209.51.188.17) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 Nov 2022 18:02:51 -0000 Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyzVV-0002yW-KU; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:02:29 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyzVT-0002yK-N7 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:02:27 -0500 Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyzVS-0001Pq-6r for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:02:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oyzVQ-0003BN-Ni for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:02:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: Help needed: nnmaildir and create-directory parameter. Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:02:14 -0800 Message-ID: <87lenxlhll.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r0xtohmh.fsf@sekai.mail-host-address-is-not-set> <87bkoxa6uq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r0xs526s.fsf@gmail.com> <87sfi6lu0o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87v8n2bmf0.fsf@ust.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Pu+Xf1QCcBO+BmxJRIB4/WAWXY= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+ml=inbox.vuxu.org@gnu.org Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+ml=inbox.vuxu.org@gnu.org Andrew Cohen writes: >>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen writes: > > EA> Fernando de Morais writes: > >> Hello Eric, > >> > >> I've managed to figure out. The TL;DR is: simply, don't use the > >> `create-directory' server parameter. Using only `target-prefix' > >> is what is needed. 😅 > >> > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> > > [...] > > > EA> I just don't understand how any of this is supposed to work -- I > EA> don't even know why you'd use symlinks in your maildirs to begin > EA> with. This part of the manual was written by Andy Cohen and I'm > EA> cc'ing him here, though he doesn't have a lot of time for Emacs > EA> these days and we might not get him. > > False and true:) I didn't have anything to do with this part of the > manual (or the nnmaildir code), and I have very little time for emacs > these days. Thanks for the quick response! magit-blame in gnus.texi found your commit 8a1cdce, but you might have been merging docs from different places. But no matter! So long as the question is resolved. > [...] > > EA> (I suspect the end result of all this will be the removal of > EA> 'create-directory altogether.) > > Looking back through git I see that Paul Jarc (the author of nnmaildir) > replaced 'create-directory with 'target-prefix in 2003. It was supposed > to be a /complete/ replacement, but it appears that 'create-directory > was accidentally left in the code and the manual . Eric's suspicion is > exactly right: don't use 'create-directory, and the variable should be > removed from nnmaildir.el and the manual. Excellent, thanks a lot for this confirmation. I'll yank that stuff out in a bit. Eric