Re: maildir subdirs not accessible anymore

[Julien Cubizolles]

James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net> writes:

> 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?

There isn't a group name since the nnmail subdir isn't picked up. A
nnmaildir directory name where this problem occurs is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
~/email/Maildir-mbsync/Free/ups-dir/ups-tex
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


which should appear in my setup as a group named

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ups-tex
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

since the top dir of the maildir is Free.

Also, where should I look for the active file for a nnmaildir ?

Lastly, I noticed the existence of
gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Its value is t
Original value was nil

If non-nil, Gnus will offer to subscribe hierarchically.
When a new hierarchy appears, Gnus will ask the user:

Descend hierarchy alt.binaries? ([y]nsq):
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Is it relevant to this problem ? At the moment Gnus doesn't ask to
descend the hierarchy for ups-dir for instance

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Julien Cubizolles