From: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help needed: nnmaildir and create-directory parameter.
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:16:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8n2bmf0.fsf@ust.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfi6lu0o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
EA> Fernando de Morais <fernandodemorais.jf@gmail.com> 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 <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> 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.
[...]
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.
Best,
Andy
--
Andrew Cohen
Director, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
Lam Woo Foundation Professor and Chair Professor of Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-23 14:44 Fernando de Morais
2022-11-23 18:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-24 5:52 ` Fernando de Morais
2022-11-25 19:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-26 0:16 ` Andrew Cohen [this message]
2022-11-26 18:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2022-11-23 14:25 Fernando de Morais
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