From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Britt Anderson <britt@b3l.xyz>
Cc: 66885@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66885: 29.1; gnus search with mu always returns empty
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:10:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qd89rft.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzr18e5z.fsf@b3l.xyz> (Britt Anderson's message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:28:41 -0400")
Britt Anderson <britt@b3l.xyz> writes:
> Copy and pasted the terminal output. mu is not expanding the 'tilde' in
> "--muhome", but if I use the full path, then I do get a list of files
> returned. However the error in the first form is not an empty search but
> a database detection error.
That's fine, the value of config-directory is expand-file-name'd, so the
tilde doesn't make it through to mu.
Your problem is likely that your configuration doesn't include the
correct `remove-prefix', a string prefix that is removed from the
filenames returned by mu. The default is "~/Mail", which is wrong in
your case, it looks like it should be
"/home/britt/.local/share/mail/uwaterloo.ca/britt/archives".
That will have to go in your config. Note that search-engine
configuration options need to go inside the `gnus-search-engine' sexp --
your previous `config-directory' config was outside, at the `nnmaildir'
level. But that was the default value anyway, so you can leave it out.
This should be sufficient:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnmaildir "mail"
(directory "/home/britt/.local/share/mail")
(gnus-search-engine gnus-search-mu
(remove-prefix "/home/britt/.local/share/mail/uwaterloo.ca/britt/archives")))))
The "(gnus) Search Engines" info manual has more detail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-02 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-01 15:01 bug#66885: 29.1; gnus search with mu always returns empty Britt Anderson
2023-11-01 19:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-11-01 19:28 ` Britt Anderson
2023-11-02 14:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2023-11-03 14:33 ` Britt Anderson
2023-11-03 23:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-11-06 21:33 ` Britt Anderson
2023-11-07 3:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-11-13 14:33 ` Britt Anderson
2023-11-19 19:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-01-01 2:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <ZZgtJ8-cgJKEaE-D@joy>
2024-01-09 21:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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