Re: Help needed: nnmaildir and create-directory parameter.

[Andrew Cohen]

>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

    EA> Fernando de Morais <fernandodemorais.jf@gmail.com> writes:
    >> Hello Eric,
    >> 
    >> I've managed to figure out.  The TL;DR is: simply, don't use the
    >> `create-directory' server parameter.  Using only `target-prefix'
    >> is what is needed.  😅
    >> 
    >> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
    >> 

[...]


    EA> I just don't understand how any of this is supposed to work -- I
    EA> don't even know why you'd use symlinks in your maildirs to begin
    EA> with. This part of the manual was written by Andy Cohen and I'm
    EA> cc'ing him here, though he doesn't have a lot of time for Emacs
    EA> these days and we might not get him.

False and true:) I didn't have anything to do with this part of the
manual (or the nnmaildir code), and I have very little time for emacs
these days.

[...]

    EA> (I suspect the end result of all this will be the removal of
    EA> 'create-directory altogether.)

Looking back through git I see that Paul Jarc (the author of nnmaildir)
replaced 'create-directory with 'target-prefix in 2003. It was supposed
to be a /complete/ replacement, but it appears that 'create-directory
was accidentally left in the code and the manual .  Eric's suspicion is
exactly right: don't use 'create-directory, and the variable should be
removed from nnmaildir.el and the manual.

Best,
Andy

-- 
Andrew Cohen
Director, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
Lam Woo Foundation Professor and Chair Professor of Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology