From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2477 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: going imap Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:36:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87smrjw8t7.unregulated@boppy.dyndns.org> <843cjjf585.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87issfvwlg.Mysidae@boppy.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668894 15262 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:45 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fnatte.nada.kth.se Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052844127 22827 130.237.226.103 (13 May 2003 16:42:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2003 16:42:07 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HLKj97Cmm11PyWOqMQRmUW8vx50= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2617 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2617 Tue Jan 17 17:30:45 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2477 Archived-At: Paul Stevenson writes: > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> You are using nnimap as the primary select method. Maybe it works >> better if you use it as a secondary select method. >> >> I recommend (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) if you want to go >> that route (or try it). nnnil is a backend that contains no groups. > > Oh. That is what I used to do, but one of the aesthetic plusses in > starting again from scratch is that (I thought) I could dispense with > the nnnil select method and just have a nnimap primary select method > and no secondaries... Oh well. You are right, though. My problems > are solved by using nnimap as a secondary select method. Thanks! This is very puzzling, but it is good to have the bug isolated. I'm afraid I don't have time to debug this right not though... if someone likes to, I could try to help. OTOH this primary/secondary/foreign/etc distinction is confusing in general. Maybe it will disappear in No Gnus, then this problem will probably go away too.