From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27061 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arcady Genkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnml trouble -- track of all read messages is lost Date: 18 Nov 1999 11:34:06 -0500 Organization: Wgaf Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d7t7iwsh.fsf@main.wgaf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164154 22650 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02406 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:34:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB05808; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:34:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:34:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21868 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:34:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02392 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:34:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991118163210.FUSB7575.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:32:10 -0800 Original-Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11oUVb-0000PT-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:34:07 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27061 All of a sudden, I cannot retrieve any of my previously read articles from any mail group. The articles are still there, i.e. they are not expired. I see in .newsrc.eld for my Private mail: ,----- | ("nnml:mail.Private" 1 ((1 . 1649)) nil (nnml "") ((expiry-wait | . never))) `----- and in my ~/Mail/active: ,----- | mail.Private 1649 1649 y `----- Overview file in ~/Mail/mail/Private points to just one article: ,----- | 1649 Thursday's Calendar a.genkin@utoronto.ca (Reminder Service) Thu, | 18 Nov 1999 09:46:04 -0500 98 4 | Xref: main.wgaf.net mail.Private:1649 `----- I tried "nnml-generate-nov-databases" (sp?), and "nnml-generate-nov-databases-1", and it only screwed the things up some more. For example, in mail.Private group I had two or three unread messages that could be accessed after the "crash", vanished after the update of nov databases. Please help! I had some unanswered email there, and all the ticked messages are gone now too. I didn't do any radical stuff, like upgrade any xemacs software. I did mess around with faces a lot just prior to this happening. After the "crash" I upgraded to .98 (from .97), hoping that it would do me good, but it didn't help. Is it time to restore my Mail directory from a backup? Last time I ran backup 3 days ago, so how would I go about the articles that were received since then? I have a bunch of ~/Mail/incoming* files. Can I make use of them? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)