Re: Question about using imap with gnus

[Neil Woods]

hsg@phy.duke.edu (Henry S. Greenside) writes:

> Also, I wanted to try using imap as a real imap server
> rather than in pop or rmail style where the mail is
> downloaded to a local file and then deleted from the
> mail server. My original try was this
>    
>    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>          '((nnfolder "")(nnimap ""
>         (nnimap-address "mail.phy.duke.edu")
>         (nnimap-stream ssl)
>         (nnimap-server-port 993)
>         (nnimap-list-pattern ("~/Mail/*")))))
>
> This worked (imap was able to detect my old mail groups
> and connect) except that I couldn't find any group like
> mbox or INBOX that contained the current mail. Would
> still be interested if someone could tell me what group
> to use when trying to use imap as it is intended to be
> used.

You need to be explicit in naming the list-pattern in the above.
Thus, the last line should be:

          (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "~/Mail/*")))))

Neil.
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