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Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1
From: |
Pietro Giorgianni |
Subject: |
Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1 |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:14:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> if i delete the .nnmaildir directory, quit gnus, exit emacs, start
>> emacs again, run gnus, it then works (simply restarting gnus doesn't),
>> but it's annoying having to loose all information about read, replied
>> etc. messages.
>
> Deleting the .nnmaildir directories while Gnus is running would cause
> problems. Exit Gnus, then delete the "nov" and "num" directories in
> all of your .nnmaildir directories. (You can keep the "marks"
> directories so you don't lose read/replied/etc. information. The
> problem is likely to be in "nov" or "num" anyway.) Then start Gnus
> again and see if anything still goes wrong.
too late, i already deleted the whole .nnmaildir directories. alas, if
i knew, i would have kept the marks directories, but, it went this
way.
> Also note that deleting the "num" directories will make nnmaildir
> reassign article number starting from 1. This can cause problems if
> you use the cache or agent, since they identify articles by number.
> But if you've already caused damage by deleting the directories while
> Gnus was running, then deleting the "num" directories again probably
> won't do any more harm.
well, after deleting all .nnmaildir dirs, i still got some other
messages when restarting gnus. i cannot tell if it's related to the
next problem:
if new messages arrive while a group is visited, i cannot see them
pressing / N on the right summary; they appear as already read, so i
can see them by pressing / O, but this is of course a problem.
if i close all groups and then launch getmail, everything seems to go
fine.
my .gnus configuration is quite minimal, and the only reference to
nnmaildir is:
,----
| (setq gnus-select-method
| '(nnmaildir "localhost"
| (directory "~/maildir")
| (expire-age never)))
`----
should i change anything?
thanks
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