bug#53989: 29.0.50; Gnus searches broken

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Does that actually come out of mairix? Any clue why that's in there?

I think it comes from mairix.  When I run

|  micha> mairix -r b:emacs

I get an output like

| /home/micha/Mail/archive//sent/8383
| /home/micha/Mail/archive//sent/8391
| ...

Without the -r arg ("raw output"), mairix fills a folder with symlinks.

That folder looks like

|  /home/micha/mairix:
|  drwxr-xr-x   2 micha micha 120K Feb 14 23:42 .
|  drwxr-xr-x 195 micha micha  60K Feb 14 23:42 ..
|  lrwxrwxrwx   1 micha micha   35 Feb 14 23:42 10002 -> 
/home/micha/Mail/archive//sent/2876
|  lrwxrwxrwx   1 micha micha   35 Feb 14 23:42 10005 -> 
/home/micha/Mail/archive//sent/2879

Visiting these symlinks succeeds, surprisingly, in Emacs, and in
Dolphin.  Is this double-slash syntax in symlink targets something
special or some kind of error that is just ignored?

This is my .mairixrc:

| base=~/Mail/archive
| mfolder=/home/micha/mairix
| mh=...
| mformat=mh
| omit=zz_mairix-*
| database=~/.mairixdatabase

Doesn't look like the slashes are from there.  And that's already all
setup I have, AFAIR. The folder names in /home/micha/Mail/archive just
look normally.

I tried to search the internet for the //-problem but didn't find
anything.

Michael.