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From: Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski_NOSPAM@imag.fr.invalid>
Subject: Re: How to create new groups with nnimap
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:53:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vqolmbfhb72.fsf@astazou.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilug01n4pzw.fsf@extundo.com>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
>
>> I want to create a mailbox (say try) in mbx format on a UW IMAP
>> server.  The way to do this is to create a group called
>> #driver.mbx/try.  One I fiddle around with gnus-invalid-group-regexp,
>> I can do this.  However the group shows up as nnimap:#driver.mbx/try
>> and then I can't access it.
>>
>> 456 CREATE "#driver.mbx/try"
>> 456 OK CREATE completed
>> 457 SELECT "#driver.mbx/try"
>> 457 NO SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox #driver.mbx/try: no such mailbox
>> 458 SELECT "#driver.mbx/try"
>> 458 NO SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox #driver.mbx/try: no such mailbox

The CREATE command is fine. However the SELECT command is wrong. It
should be SELECT "try", ie without the prefix. The #driver.mbx seems
to be used only at mailbox creation...But I am presulably wrong.

I just tried this by creating such a mailbox with Pine, and I can read
it from Gnus+nnimap.

Nicolas.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-21 19:47 Nevin Kapur
2002-04-21 20:29 ` Simon Josefsson
     [not found]   ` <m3znzwtzh9.fsf@bombay.dyndns.org>
     [not found]     ` <ilug01n4pzw.fsf@extundo.com>
2002-04-22 17:53       ` Nicolas Kowalski [this message]
     [not found]       ` <m3znzvwr0c.fsf@fermat.mts.jhu.edu>
2002-04-22 20:22         ` Nicolas Kowalski
2002-04-22 19:14     ` Kai Großjohann

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