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Re: Mail continually marked as unread
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Mail continually marked as unread |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:57:48 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
TZ> On 13 Jul 2006, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:
>>>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>
TZ> On 11 Jul 2006, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm having strange problems with my email. For some reason,
>>>> occasionally some of my mail always appears to be unread when I
>>>> start gnus, even though I have read it a number of times, or
>>>> done catch up on the group.
>>>>
>>>> I can't see anything odd about the messages, nor about their
>>>> file on disk.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone got any suggestions?
>>
TZ> Look in your newsrc for that group before starting Gnus, and
TZ> after catching up and hitting 's' to save the newsrc. You may
TZ> have an invalid range for some reason.
>>
>>
>>
>> Okay, but what am I looking for?
TZ> Pick a group that's problematic. Grep your newsrc.eld for the
TZ> group name before and after you enter it. You're looking for
TZ> discrepancy between the data in the newsrc and what's on the
TZ> server. In the worst case, you can just delete the group from
TZ> the newsrc (or just C-k in Gnus) and then re-add it, but you'll
TZ> lose state data (how much depends on the group, e.g. nnimap
TZ> backends are not too affected while nntp backends are). Also
TZ> the problem may be elsewhere.
TZ> I'm not an expert in article ranges, but will at least try to
TZ> help you get enough information so this bug can be found and
TZ> fixed, if possible. You can follow up directly to the ding
TZ> mailing list if you want knowledgeable people to look at your
TZ> report directly. I think fewer follow the gnu.emacs.gnus
TZ> newsgroup.
Okay, thanks. Will try this.
Phil