Corrupted /Mail/mail/ dir

[Bastien]

Hi all,

I use [Gnus + BBDB] for splitting mails -- making a large use of the
`gnus-private' field.  It now appears that some of my incoming mails
are put in the right nnml:mail.* group, but Gnus doesn't see them as
*new*, which is REALLY annoying.

When tracking the problem, i found that my mail dir looks like this:

,----[ /Mail/mail ]
|   drwxr-xr-x   2 guerry guerry 36864 nov 17 10:41 amies
|   drwxr-xr-x   3 guerry guerry  4096 oct 18 03:30 amies
| mail
|   drwxr-xr-x   2 guerry guerry 20480 nov 25 13:49 amis
|   drwxrwxr-x   3 guerry guerry  4096 nov 23 01:14 amis
| mail
|   drwxr-xr-x   2 guerry guerry 12288 nov 22 19:43 bhl
`----

What are these `amies^Jmail' and `amis^Jmail' ?

I never created them manually.  So i suspect that these "ghost" dirs
are misleading for Gnus when splitting mails.

How can i get rid of them ?  How can i fix/circumvent the problem ?

Thank you,

-- 
Bastien Guerry
http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/