From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45318 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml group loosing marks Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:53:59 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86vg8eb1yg.fsf@i2d.home> References: <86adpzdoql.fsf@i2d.home> <86wusyjcf8.fsf@i2d.home> <86lm9azyy0.fsf@i2d.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024574999 28310 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2002 12:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:09:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17L0lC-0007MV-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17L0kg-0007Vt-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:09:26 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:09:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA12635 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:09:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26772 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2002 12:09:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26751 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2002 12:09:07 -0000 Original-Received: from porto.cybernet.ch (212.90.198.189) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jun 2002 12:09:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 85064 invoked for bounce); 20 Jun 2002 12:07:29 -0000 Original-Received: from diup-194-174.cybernet.ch (HELO i2d.home) (212.90.194.174) by porto.cybernet.ch with SMTP; 20 Jun 2002 12:07:29 -0000 Original-Received: from dada by i2d.home with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17L0Vj-0000JU-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:53:59 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:49:43 +0200") Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45318 Simon Josefsson writes: > Robert Epprecht writes: > >> As a work around I copied all dormant and all 'unread' messages to a >> new nnml group (and adapted nnmail-split-methods accordingly) in the >> hope things would start working again. Nope, same thing in the new >> group. I killed a short thread (982-987) and saved .newsrc.eld >> ("debianUser" 3 ((1 . 978) (982 . 987) 1001 (1047 . 1048) ... >> ^^^^^^^^^^^ >> I left Gnus, restarted it (yes the thread is back) saved again: >> ("debianUser" 3 ((1 . 978) 1001 (1047 . 1048) ... >> No other difference in this group. What does it mean? > > nnml uses ~/Mail/foo/.marks instead of .newsrc.eld now, I think. > Modifying .newsrc.eld manually is not recommended. Maybe you misunderstood (?) I did not change this by hand, Gnus did. > Perhaps, if you frob gnus-agent and gnus-agent-cache, does the problem > go away? Yes, it does, thank you very much. This solves the problem for me (as I do use two different Gnus incarnations for news and for mail), but I don't think it solves the problem for someone using one Gnus for mail *and* news, as probably most users will do. Robert Epprecht