From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3977 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard Watson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Yet another maildir question Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:46:25 +0100 Organization: freedom2surf Message-ID: <87y8ldae1a.fsf@bigriver.doilywood.lan> References: <87d62pzts5.fsf@phiwumbda.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669992 21242 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:13:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:03 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!213.210.46.30.MISMATCH!peernews.inweb.co.uk!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: westbury.doilywood.org.uk Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1090403193 16426 195.137.6.123 (21 Jul 2004 09:46:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Organisation: Openia Limited User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t5F/7aGmTJ7W38jtXUGvrVRLlsc= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4118 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4118 Tue Jan 17 17:33:03 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3977 Archived-At: jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes: > Evidently ~/Maildir is INBOX, and each subdirectory .dirname > corresponds to a group called INBOX.dirname. This leads to fairly > unwieldy group names: nnimap+PW:INBOX.blah. But I guess I can live > with this. But *must* every group start with INBOX? I think that's a courier thing. All folders have to live inside the INBOX. > At least it seems to make sense to me to > have INBOX.tue.research in INBOX/.tue/.research. Am I wrong that this > is sensible? Is a flat directory better? If not, how do I get gnus > to move things the way I want? Can't you imagine that a . is a / ? ;-) Surely a flat format is as good as anything for humanly-manageable numbers of groups? I'm sure you can get gnus to move things around for you, but then you'll be confusing courier, which seems to defeat the object. -- Richard Watson Openia Limited