mailboxes disappeared, some mail missing, suggestions welcome

[ciaran@member.fsf.org (Ciarán O'Riordan)]

Hi all,

I hit some key and all but one of my inboxes disappeared from the Groups
buffer.  This is the third time I've had this problem and I think I've
figured out what happened: I probably hit C-w, which is a shortcut for
gnus-group-kill-region.  I tried to undo but it just said the buffer was
read-only.  By the time I thought of checking lossage, I'd already hit too
many other keys so I couldn't confirm C-w is the culprit.

I know how to get my inboxes to re-appear: I hit U and subscribe to them
again.  I've done this, but my sent-mail inbox just contains four seemingly
randomly selected mails I sent.  The other 1500 are gone.

I dropped to the command line and went to my mail directory and grepped for
the name of someone I've sent a dozen mails to, but the only hits I got were
in my inbox.  I opened my sent-mail file (I'm using nnfolder, one file per
inbox) with 'less' and confirmed that the only contents were those four
random surviving mails.  The related files are similarly small: 

-rw------- 1 coriordan coriordan 5985 Aug 29 19:19 Back2Gnus/sent-mail~
-rw------- 1 coriordan coriordan 6729 Sep  2 01:43 Back2Gnus/sent-mail
-rw------- 1 coriordan coriordan   34 Jan 20 20:00 Back2Gnus/sent-mail.mrk
-rw------- 1 coriordan coriordan 1315 Sep  2 01:57 Back2Gnus/sent-mail.nov

One other problem is that after I resubscribed to my other inboxes, every
mail is listed as unread.

Anyone think there's any hope of getting all my sent-mails back?

If anyone knows how to fix the "read" markings in my other inboxes, that
would be nice, but I can do all that manually if necessary.

My .gnus (below) is quite plain.


Thanks in advance.

===========================
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnfolder ""))

(setq gnus-group-line-format "%S %5y : %G (%s) m:%m\n")

(setq gnus-sorted-header-list '("^From:" "^Date:" "^Subject:"
				"^To:" "^Cc:" "^Reply-To:"
				"^In-Reply-To:" "^Cc:" "^Reply-To:"
				"^User-Agent:" "^X-Mailer:"))
(setq gnus-visible-headers gnus-sorted-header-list)

(setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnfolder:sent-mail")

(setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/coriordan")))
(setq mail-yank-prefix "> ")

(setq nnmail-crosspost t)
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("spam" "^X-Spam-Flag:.*YES")
	("spam" "From: .*prconsulting2012.*@yahoo.com")
;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;  to keep this mail short I trimmed 50 lines here
;;;;;;;;;;;;;
	("epfsug" "List-Id: <epfsug.epfsug.eu>")
 	("other" ""))))

(setq nnfolder-directory "~/Back2Gnus/")

(defun my-message-mode-setup ()
  (setq fill-column 76)
  (turn-on-auto-fill)
  (font-lock-mode nil))
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'my-message-mode-setup)
===========================


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http://ciaran.compsoc.com/

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