hi,

i'm new  to the mailing  list but  not to gnus:  after using it  for a
while, about one year ago i decided to try other emacs mail clients: i
first used  vm, them mew.  now that i've  seen what else there  is out
there, i finally know that what i need is gnus.

each  time  i changed  everything:  mailbox  format, fetching  method,
splitting method. so old configuration cannot help.

i  decided to try  nnmaildir, and  i would  be happy  with it,  but it
cannot read my inbox folder.

i now  use getmail to fetch mail  and maildrop to split  it in several
maildirs inside ~/Mail, with inbox as default mailbox.

gnus, while  working fine with  other folders, always says  that inbox
has hundreds of messages (it's  an increasing number, by now it's 642,
but it grows when new mail arrives);  if i then try to read them, gnus
says there are no unread messages, and refuses to show me the box.

if i  fisically rename  the directory inbox/  to something  else, gnus
lets me see it.

i've  even tried,  almost [*]  without effects,  to  remove ~/.newsrc*
before starting gnus.

must i give up using inbox as default mailbox or there is a solution?

[*] 
once  and just once,  after removing  those files  gnus showed  me the
right content of inbox, but i cannot reproduce this.

thanks,

pietro