* Gnus generates .nnmaildir directories causing mbsync to fail
@ 2024-04-19 2:00 Marc Coquand
2024-04-19 8:33 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-04-20 23:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Marc Coquand @ 2024-04-19 2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Heya!
I'm trying to setup Gnus with maildir. I've setup the following:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnmaildir "personal"
(nnmail-expiry-target "nnmaildir+personal:Trash")
(directory "~/mail-home"))))
It reads the directory without issue, but when I try to sync I get an
error that there is a folder .nnmaildir created, which I believe is done
by gnus.
Is there a way to setup gnus so it doesn't generate these metadata files
within the directories?
Thanks in advance
-- marc
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2024-04-19 2:00 Gnus generates .nnmaildir directories causing mbsync to fail Marc Coquand
@ 2024-04-19 8:33 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-04-20 23:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mekeor Melire @ 2024-04-19 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc Coquand; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
2024-04-18 21:00 marc@mccd.space:
> I'm trying to setup Gnus with maildir.
> It reads the directory without issue, but when I try to sync I get an
> error that there is a folder .nnmaildir created, which I believe is done
> by gnus.
>
> Is there a way to setup gnus so it doesn't generate these metadata files
> within the directories?
I did it the other way around: I instructed mbsync to ignore the
.nnmaildir files by adding some negated pattern rules to its
configuration, specifically to the Channel configuration, like this:
Patterns INBOX * !.nnmaildir !INBOX/.nnmaildir
I'm not sure if it's redundant. Good luck!
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* Re: Gnus generates .nnmaildir directories causing mbsync to fail
2024-04-19 2:00 Gnus generates .nnmaildir directories causing mbsync to fail Marc Coquand
2024-04-19 8:33 ` Mekeor Melire
@ 2024-04-20 23:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2024-04-20 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc Coquand; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space> writes:
> Heya!
>
> I'm trying to setup Gnus with maildir. I've setup the following:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnmaildir "personal"
> (nnmail-expiry-target "nnmaildir+personal:Trash")
> (directory "~/mail-home"))))
>
> It reads the directory without issue, but when I try to sync I get an
> error that there is a folder .nnmaildir created, which I believe is done
> by gnus.
>
> Is there a way to setup gnus so it doesn't generate these metadata files
> within the directories?
No, it looks like the location of the metadata folder is hard-coded.
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