From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20785 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Skogestad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:43:51 GMT Organization: The Church of Emacs, Legal Dept. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <3095019828489628@birk150.studby.uio.no> Reply-To: thomas+mail@chembio.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159015 19663 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01691 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:45:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB26281; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:45:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:45:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07150 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:44:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01654 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:44:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 11682 invoked by uid 509); 28 Jan 1999 23:43:56 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070072 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.72) Emacs/20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.240.214.180 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 917567031 129.240.214.180 (Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:43:51 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:43:51 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20785 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20785 After several years of living in total darkness, I decided to add some mail splitting. Nothing fancy, just something like (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("mail.junk" "^From:.*Thomas Skogestad") ("mail.misc" ""))) Now. I sent myself a test mail, restarted Gnus, Gnus complained about the junk directory not existing. Gnus then (or just before) decided to garblygook gnarf my mail. It deleted _everything_. Instead of having a misc dir with lotsa mail, I got an empty junk directory. Is Gnus supposed to behave this way? (One is not supposed to RTFM, is one?) (To preserve my sanity, thankfully there's a backup taken of all my files saved on a Unix-server -- daily. Thankfully I've been saving all mail on one of those machines.) -- Q. What's the difference between a police officer in San Francisco and a police officer in Los Angeles? A. A police officer in San Francisco will dance and have a few drinks when he says he's going out "clubbing." .