>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes:
EA> Fernando de Morais <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
