From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: gnus active file has been overwritten [was Re: Setting up nnmairix ] Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <874ou15ip7.fsf@kobe.laptop> <843331d7-e555-4a30-a716-fdf617a22499@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <87k52tbmht.fsf@kobe.laptop> <8682e5a7-6d39-4882-b82b-269175381b5e@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247042530 14521 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2009 08:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:42:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 08 10:42:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOSiU-0000gi-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOSiT-0003Gm-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:41:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.232.205 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247038854 11634 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2009 07:40:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.41.232.205; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.10, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 grimoire.wyplay.int:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE14) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170631 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65832 Archived-At: On Jul 6, 8:38=A0pm, David Engster wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > > On Jul 3, 12:28=A0am, David Engster wrote: > > >> Some people are not comfortable with some program creating new folders > >> on their primary mail back end, so you can simply create another (nnml > >> or nnmaildir) and let nnmairix use that one. > > I created a nnml backend called 'mairix' but it's simply almost empty: > > > $ tree -a Mail/mairix > > Mail/mairix > > |-- .marks > > `-- mairix > > =A0 =A0 `-- .marks > > > And after a search (G b s), results go to Mail/zz_mairix-mairix-1 > > directory, but I thought it would go to Mail/mairix... > > > Here is what I got when I look at the mairix group parameters: > > > (nnmairix "mairix" > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (nnmairix-backend nnml) > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (nnmairix-backend-server "") > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (nnmairix-mairix-command "mairix") > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (nnmairix-hidden-folders nil) > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (nnmairix-default-group "mairix")) > > Your nnmairix server uses the "nnml:" default server (see the > nnmairix-backend-server variable). > > For example, a possible setup could look like this > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > =A0 =A0 =A0 '((nnml "")) > =A0 =A0 =A0 '((nnml "mairixresults" (nnml-directory "~/mairixresults")))) > > As you can see, the nnml-directory for the second server is not in > ~/Mail. Otherwise, the default nnml server, which lives in ~/Mail, could > mess with the mairix results. > > Now you could delete all your old mairix groups, restart Gnus, and > create a new nnmairix server. This time, simply choose > nnml:mairixresults as the back end. > > Just to make things clear: you do not have to use a different nnml > server for the mairix results; it will work with your default nnml back > end just fine. > Now I hate gnus ! It's the second time that I opened gnus and all my nnml groups and all my remote groups are no more subscribted ! This happened because my active file is almost empty: $ cat Mail/active x.zz_mairix-search-1 4277 4274 y So does anybody know why this happened at all and how I can restore my previous active file ? I don't know if that helps but I saw this in my message buffer: nnmairix-request-group: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, x \.zz_mairix-search-1 thanks for any help.