Re: nnimap displays wrong article after server move

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>:
>
>> If `gnus-agent-cache' is t, and data is present, Gnus will prefer the
>> agent data for that server, even if it's no longer agentized. You'd
>> have to shut the agent all the way off (`gnus-agent' -> nil) to ignore
>> that data.
>
> Yeah, it's really, really, really, head-thumping-in-table time...
>
> Gnus and gnus agent is not to blame.
>
> dovecot is not to blame.
>
> I and only I am to blame.
>
> Yesterday's email was wiped today, and now I knew for sure I hadn't
> deleted anything, even though deleted spam was back... so I looked
> again, and my user's crontab on the mailserver had this thing syncing
> from the old server (slightly anonymized server name):
>
> 0 5 * * * rsync -4 --archive --delete oldserver.mydomain.no:Maildir .
>
> So basically all email received from february 6 (when I switched
> servers) and until last midnight is gone, because of --delete.
>
> And heh... the gnus agent that could have helped me, I've also deleted,
> since I thought it was to blame.

Oof! You're not the first to do something like this, and won't be the
last, but it always hurts to lose mail.