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  Alternative for nnimap-list-pattern Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> - 2023-11-30 22:34 +0100
    Re: Alternative for nnimap-list-pattern Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> - 2023-12-02 08:49 +0100
      Re: Alternative for nnimap-list-pattern Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> - 2023-12-02 13:09 +0100
        Re: Alternative for nnimap-list-pattern Thomas Dupond <thomas@dupond.eu> - 2023-12-04 17:48 +0100

#7847 — Alternative for nnimap-list-pattern

Hi there,

for one of my email servers I just want to move vom POP to nnimap.

Connection to the mail server works, but the server then sends me my
complete home directory, every single file as a group, not just my mbox
(/var/mail/my_mbox).

In early versions of nnimap there was a variable nnimap-list-pattern
which contains a list groups in which I'm really interested, to omit the
other junk from those imap servers.

As I learned here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2022-01/msg01693.html
that variable does not exist anymore in current gnus version.

Is there another way to filter groups from the nnimap server?

-- 
Tschau
Rüdiger

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#7848

On 30 November 2023 22:34 Rud1ger Sch1erz, wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> for one of my email servers I just want to move vom POP to nnimap.
>
> Connection to the mail server works, but the server then sends me my
> complete home directory, every single file as a group, not just my mbox
> (/var/mail/my_mbox).
>
> In early versions of nnimap there was a variable nnimap-list-pattern
> which contains a list groups in which I'm really interested, to omit the
> other junk from those imap servers.
>
> As I learned here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2022-01/msg01693.html
> that variable does not exist anymore in current gnus version.
>
> Is there another way to filter groups from the nnimap server?


Can you go into the *server* buffer, browse/open/enter your nnimap
server there, and find all of your imap folders?

Then you could select the folders you want in the *Group* buffer?

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#7849

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> Can you go into the *server* buffer, browse/open/enter your nnimap
> server there, and find all of your imap folders?
>
> Then you could select the folders you want in the *Group* buffer?

Yes, beside INBOX, Trash, Sent I see the complete file tree of my home
directory at that server in the *server* buffer.

I can kill those `file' groups to not see them in the Group buffer.
However, it a file changes or get added, I get it offered again, which
is anoying.

-- 
Tschau
Rüdiger

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#7850

Le 2023-12-02 à 13:09, Rud1ger Sch1erz a écrit :
> Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> 
>> Can you go into the *server* buffer, browse/open/enter your nnimap
>> server there, and find all of your imap folders?
>>
>> Then you could select the folders you want in the *Group* buffer?
> 
> Yes, beside INBOX, Trash, Sent I see the complete file tree of my home
> directory at that server in the *server* buffer.
> 
> I can kill those `file' groups to not see them in the Group buffer.
> However, it a file changes or get added, I get it offered again, which
> is anoying.

I think Gijs is offering the correct solution however as you have seen, 
nnimap can be quite finicky.  I always had recurring issues with it.

Nowadays I use offlineimap to save the emails I want in a maildir format 
and then use nnmaildir.

This is very reliable.  I use it at work and had no issue at all in a year.
-- 
Thomas

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