Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone here successfully configured courier-imap with exim4 to sit
>>>>> on top of an existing maildir directory in order to employ the nnimap
>>>>> backend in gnus rather than the maildir one? I read that it should speed
>>>>> up gnus startup.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a ~/Mail directory which then contains about 15 sub Maildirs
>>>>> which are fed from fetchmail and procmail from various mailing lists and
>>>>> personal email subscriptions.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, if I understand you right, that's my mail setup. Except that I don't 
>>>> use
>>>> fetchmail to get the mail -- I use offlineimap to sync the "real" imap 
>>>> server
>>>> to the maildirs on my laptop. courier is running locally on the laptop, 
>>>> and I
>>>> point nnimap at it.
>>>
>>> Could you post your elisp for me please? Do you need to register each
>>> sub dir or do you only point courier to the top level dir and then emacs
>>> to localhost imap? I see "INBOX", but not my individual maildirs.
>>
>> It doesn't take much elisp. I just added this entry to my
>> gnus-secondary-select-methods:
>>
>> (nnimap "local"
>>                 (nnimap-address "localhost")
>>                 (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.imap-authinfo")
>>                 (nnimap-stream ssl))
>>
>> If you're not seeing your maildirs in gnus, maybe it's because you're not
>> subscribed to them? You can list unsubscribed groups with "A A" in the Group
>> buffer, or enter the server buffer with ^ and hit RET on your local IMAP 
>> server
>> to see the groups list there. Subscribe to them with u.
>
> Hi John,
>
> I'm still only seeing
>
>        *: nnimap+local:INBOX
>
> which leads me to believe I might not have configured imap properly. Is
> there a way to query the IMAP base maildir directory from emacs or
> command line (linux ubuntu). I know imap ok is running because I see the
> above I assume?

What do you see when you enter the server via the server buffer? Hit ^, then
hit RET on the name of your imap server. Does it list any groups then?

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