Re: nnmaildir + namazu + fancy splitting: problem solved

[Ruslan Spivak <ruslan.spivak@gmail.com>]

Ruslan Spivak <ruslan.spivak@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, everybody.
>
> I'm using Emacs from CVS (22.1.50) with Gnus and have several select
> methods: nnmaildir and nnml. In addition i've set up gnus namazu and
> fancy splitting rules both for mails from nnmaildir and nnml.
>
> The problem is that search works only with nnml, the same is for fancy
> splitting rules - they work only for nnml group. 
> I've tested namazu search from command line and it retuned search
> results for mails belonging to nnmaildir group while it doesn't work
> from emacs.
>
> It seems somewhat related that fancy rules and namazu search work only
> for nnml but not for nnmaildir.
>
> This is excerpt for my select methods:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/alienoid")))
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnmaildir "test"
>               (directory "~/.nnmaildir/")
>               (expire-age never)
>               (create-directory "../foo")
>               (directory-files nnheader-directory-files-safe)
>               (get-new-mail nil))
>         (nnml "gmail"
>               (expire-age never)
>               (nnml-get-new-mail t))))
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On filesystem ~/.nnmaildir contains soft link rspivak@localhost to
> ~/Maildir which contains mail messages.
>
> Maybe someone has any idea where to dig further.
>

Solved the problem by having only nnml backend and adding maildir to
mail-sources.

Regards,
Ruslan

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