From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62424 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfram Fenske Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Deleted messages don't go away Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:30:40 +0200 Message-ID: <864q1ivgqn.fsf@hondo.nowhere.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143552904 6028 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 13:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10951@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 28 15:35:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FOELP-0001zz-Bz for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:34:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FOELG-0003Pl-00; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:34:38 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FOEHS-0003Pg-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:30:42 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FOEHQ-000220-Fn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:30:42 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-magdeburg.de ([141.44.1.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FOEHP-0001tW-00 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from sunny.urz.uni-magdeburg.de ([141.44.8.7]) by mail.uni-magdeburg.de with esmtp (EXIM Version 4.43) for id 1FOEHN-00076m-3H; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from hondo.nowhere.com (pD95162D9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.98.217]) (authenticated bits=0) by sunny.urz.uni-magdeburg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2SDUZTH028903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:30:36 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (gdt@work.lexort.com's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:57:46 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.18 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Spam-Report: ---- Start SpamAssassin results -2.6 points, 5.0 required; -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-Scan-Signature: 51053d43ef344212f70cefe16a149746 X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62424 Archived-At: gdt@work.lexort.com writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> I keep seeing some messages in my NNIMAP groups even long after I've >> removed them using a different mail client. Is there some way to get >> Gnus to forget what it thinks it knows so the record can be accurate >> again? > > I had this problem too, and turned off the agent. Then gnus seems to > no longer remember the stale messages. > > I suspect this is a cache-consistency issue arising from the > newsreader focus of Gnus, where articles don't (properly) go away. I agree that it's a cache issue. A while back, when this problem got really bad for me (hundreds of ghost emails), I deleted everything in ~/News/agent/nnimap and the dead articles were gone. I think Dave Goldberg's workaround might be better, though. This problem might not arise if I used just one mail client on one computer but that's not possible for me. In fact, that's the whole reason I'm using IMAP. Ironic, isn't it? > [...] Regards Wolfram