Re: Problems with New Folders

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Radford <radford@robby.caltech.edu> writes:

   >> I had killed (gnus-topic-kill-group) a number of my IMAP mailboxes
   >> as part of a major clean-up with the expectation that the next time
   >> mail arrived to my INBOX and got split into one those folders, it
   >> would then be displayed in gnus.  Much to my chagrin, these folders
   >> did not reappear.  

   Jim> This is not the way it works.  The splitting functions have no idea
   Jim> what groups you are subscribed to, nor should they.  Subscribed groups
   Jim> that have no messages don't get displayed in Gnus until they do.  This,
   Jim> I believe, is the effect you are looking for.

No.  I _do_ understand and appreciate the fact that empty groups do no appear 
on the list.  I am referring to the fact that, after having killed groups
from the group buffer, new mail was then split in to those folders without my 
having any way of resubscribing to them.

   >> So, I pressed 'U' hoping to resubscribe.  None of
   >> these mailboxes was offered to me as an option.  
   >> My only workaround
   >> was to go into the server buffer, browse the IMAP server, and
   >> manually subscribe to the folders I wanted.  

   Jim> This seems like a bug in Gnus, not nnimap.  We have nothing to do with
   Jim> subscription, other that initially providing the list of possible
   Jim> groups.  The list we provide is the exact list that we provide to the
   Jim> server buffer, which seemed to have the group you were looking for.

Hmmmm.  Well, something is certainly not showing me the full list of imap
folders when I do a 'U' and try using autocompletion.

   >> Did I miss a better way of doing this?

   Jim> I don't think so.  U should work.  Is your nnimap server your primary
   Jim> server ?

No.  It is one of two secondary servers. The other is a POP server which I
cannot delete due to a bug in gnus.  Since the nnimap server is being
processed first, my mail is split into the imap folders before the POP server 
gets to see anything.  If new mail arrives after nnimap has split the INBOX
but before it is finished, the POP server gets it.  This is an annoyance but
one that I can live with for the time being.

   Jim> -Jim

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