From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69271 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Issue with nnml backend and gnus-group-get-new-news() Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:17:15 +0100 Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0912080717w1136fcaeu6d8362e9264854e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b2ab8a0911300136v4593c4b6y41a072ea0f606475@mail.gmail.com> <878wdnuigm.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <38b2ab8a0912010413k7dd402actfda0b1b7352b27af@mail.gmail.com> <877ht5udyg.fsf@uwo.ca> <38b2ab8a0912030111v613f617cm8611f6638f499e41@mail.gmail.com> <87r5rc87zm.fsf@jdc.math.uwo.ca> <38b2ab8a0912031342p90613a5t80cbb276da8d1dff@mail.gmail.com> <87pr6vyaif.fsf@uwo.ca> <38b2ab8a0912080405m3aae775coe6c63efcd3814f31@mail.gmail.com> <87r5r5lfvd.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260285521 14947 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2009 15:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dan Christensen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17676@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 08 16:18:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NI1ph-0006Fi-Co for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NI1p0-0001vC-Mc; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:50 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NI1oz-0001uv-HU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:49 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NI1ox-0008Vm-CD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:17:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f216.google.com ([209.85.220.216]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NI1ow-00081x-00 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:17:46 +0100 Original-Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so4394504fxm.7 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:17:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OkuGlEZG8SBoz5jcdalrKPHDLaE03cl+xap6ddAuTpg=; b=rDru0t0OTY8002ejsSsMwy6xSKFMICTNOPq7icLkjJphESrbcqfCB4LX3yce2TavqJ 7yB2JLn3gOIlFR8RzKhFDtGzttv7Q3fPlu+MTvvpvg8I64bdnIIllIDkbigActPRp8XZ k0k9iWrF55MeGT3LxytP/OEet4uPRE1b4V3/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=yC5qIv2ybCCYtOxd0NYRST0UWaxdXouI9g1qrLRiRAFIa68N12oCuHsGXpIpdUcYiB 9cF+VndmArNanLBhCIWwtBh5KlMOisa2Coy03A9NReC9P1tLoooXFMWPjOTlHCFm7SYg MIao4CbROxsV8bV+0y/O2L2GbiBlVRNFGPpD4= Original-Received: by 10.239.139.199 with SMTP id u7mr902752hbu.96.1260285436019; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:17:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87r5r5lfvd.fsf@uwo.ca> X-Spam-Score: -3.1 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69271 Archived-At: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Dan Christensen wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > >> BTW, can you reproduce the issue on your side ? > > No, I can't, and mail loss is a serious issue that would be highly > visible on the list if it happened in ordinary situations. Well, the problem come up only when using a prefix. > =A0It must > be a result of your configuration (including the history of groups you > created and deleted), but I don't know how to debug it further. Probably, but I'm a poor Gnus user so I don't know how to debug this either= ... > If > you've just started using Gnus, you could try starting over from > scratch: export your mail to some format, delete all Gnus files > (including .newsrc* and the tree of mail folders), and import your mail > into a fresh set-up of Gnus. =A0You'll lose your marks, but maybe it's > worth it. Ouch, that would be the last thing I would do. I always felt that Gnus is a bit fragile, simply kill and create (wrong) groups can mess up the whole configuration. That's sad. --=20 Francis