Andrew Cohen <aco...@ust.hk> writes: >>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > > EA> Fernando de Morais <fernandodemorais...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello Eric, > >> > >> I've managed to figure out. The TL;DR is: simply, don't use the > >> `create-directory' server parameter. Using only `target-prefix' > >> is what is needed. 😅 > >> > >> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> > > [...] > > > EA> I just don't understand how any of this is supposed to work -- I > EA> don't even know why you'd use symlinks in your maildirs to begin > EA> with. This part of the manual was written by Andy Cohen and I'm > EA> cc'ing him here, though he doesn't have a lot of time for Emacs > EA> these days and we might not get him. > > False and true:) I didn't have anything to do with this part of the > manual (or the nnmaildir code), and I have very little time for emacs > these days.
Thanks for the quick response! magit-blame in gnus.texi found your commit 8a1cdce, but you might have been merging docs from different places. But no matter! So long as the question is resolved. > [...] > > EA> (I suspect the end result of all this will be the removal of > EA> 'create-directory altogether.) > > Looking back through git I see that Paul Jarc (the author of nnmaildir) > replaced 'create-directory with 'target-prefix in 2003. It was supposed > to be a /complete/ replacement, but it appears that 'create-directory > was accidentally left in the code and the manual . Eric's suspicion is > exactly right: don't use 'create-directory, and the variable should be > removed from nnmaildir.el and the manual. Excellent, thanks a lot for this confirmation. I'll yank that stuff out in a bit. Eric
