From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/332 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to create new groups with nnimap Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:29:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667348 6477 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:26 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1019420998 29197 217.13.230.178 (21 Apr 2002 20:29:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2002 20:29:58 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9AtqiTF/CdtI7qAJSCvyvgLlDC4= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:472 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 472 Tue Jan 17 17:27:26 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:332 Archived-At: Nevin Kapur writes: > I can't seem to create new groups using 'G m' in the *Group* buffer. > I tried to create one called "try" and then using the select method > "nnimap:jesse" (my nnimap backend). A group appears, but when I try > to enter it I get a message: > > Couldn't activate group nnimap+jesse:try: SELECT failed: Can't open > mailbox try: no such mailbox > > Perhaps 'G m' does not really "create" a mailbox when it does not > exist. In that case, how does on create an empty mailbox. If I move > a set of messages to a non-existent group, then Gnus creates it on the > fly... Set `imap-log' and look in the buffer to find out what's happening. It works for me.