Re: maildir subdirs not accessible anymore

[James Thomas]

James Thomas wrote:

> Julien Cubizolles wrote:
>
>> I noticed that maildir subdirs don't appear anymore in Gnus. For
>> instance, the
>>
>> [Gmail]/Inbox
>>
>>
>> is absent from the *Gnus Browse Server* list of groups and the [Gmail]
>> group throws the following:
>>
>> error "Couldn’t enter nnmaildir+Gmail:[Gmail]"
>>
>> I used to be able to access such subdirs before with the same setup
>> (nnmaildir populated by mbsync).I'm using Gnus v5.13.
>
> I might've had something to do with it. Could you try the fix mentioned
> in bug#69517 viz:
>
>> Lastly, the fix for such an unlikely existing setup is a simple rename
>> of the directory: say, from [Gmail]_Drafts to [Gmail]%2FDrafts.

Or, in nnmaildir's case, renaming the groups might be sufficient. Could
you post your group names, directory names and the active file?

Regards,
James