5.8.2 nnml article moves not visible in new group

5.8.2 nnml article moves not visible in new group

[Chris Shenton]

This has been buggin' me for a while but I see it's still in 5.8.2 so
I figured I'd ask. 

I use nnml mail back end, with incoming mail being sorted into groups like

        in.chris
        in.work
        list.gnus
        list.beer

When I read an article I want to save, I move it with "B m" into my
saved groups which look like:

        net.mail.qmail
        net.mail.gnus
        net.security
        food.drink.beer
        

But it does not show up in the *Summary net.mail.gnus* types of
displays. 

I can see the article files in the ~/Mail/net/mail/gnus/ dir and such,
and it even appears in the .overview file there. Doing a "g" doesn't
help, nor does quitting gnus or even stopping and restarting emacs.

If I do an nnml-nov-generate-database the moved articles to appear.
This is a bit time consuming with lots of saved mail.

Is there some weird interaction with the ~/Mail/active file? I looked
there and it appeared the troublesome articles were listed as the
first and second numbers next to corresponding group.


Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to keep things more
consistent? Or a workaround which avoids having to regenerate the nov
database? Other suggestions? 

Thanks.

Re: 5.8.2 nnml article moves not visible in new group

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Except for the -generate-database interaction, what you describe is
what I consider normal.  When you move an article to another group, it
has (generally) already been read.  It is moved to the new group with
that status intact.  If you happen to `M-u' to remove all marks from
the article before moving, including it's "been read" status, it will
show up in the new group as unread, and should appear normally.

I generally consider the fact that articles are moved with all marks
intact to be a feature, though obviously it's slightly confusing until
one realizes what it is that has happened.