Re: maildir subdirs not accessible anymore

[James Thomas]

Julien Cubizolles wrote:

> James Thomas writes:
>
>> Could you check that there's a symlink to 'ups-tex' within 'Free'? It
>> seems that that is needed, because from the docs:
>>
>>   For each of your ‘nnmaildir’ servers (it's very unlikely that you'd
>>   need more than one), you need to create a directory and populate it
>>   with maildirs or symlinks to maildirs (and nothing else; do not choose
>>   a directory already used for other purposes).
>
> I think I was wrong in assuming that Gnus was previously able to descend
> subdirs in my setup. I checked the remote IMAP server and noticed that
> it didn't use subdirs until recently, and I had put these groups in a
> subtopic in Gnus, which I took the habit of mistaking for a correct
> representation of the structure of the IMAP server. It's easier for now
> to configure the IMAP to use a flat structure and use topics in Gnus.
>
> Thanks for your help and sorry for this false representation of what
> was finally not a problem…

Cool. But I'll take a rain check on this for the next time something's
really my fault. :-)

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