On Thursday, 11 Sep 2014 at 23:20, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

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> Brilliant, that did it! I was getting the same result in the server
> buffer as I was in the groups buffer: broken groups (there turned out to
> be a few) couldn't be entered.
>
> But deleting the active parameter did the trick. (I'd also never tried

Excellent.

[...]

> I'm trying to learn more of the Gnus internals, and feel like I've made
> some progress, but I have to say the "active list" stuff still feels
> like voodoo to me. There's no way in hell I would have touched those
> entries without your prompting (and a fairly unimportant broken group to
> test on). There's a fragility to the whole thing that makes me light

I understand your reticence.  However, with imap servers, you are fairly
safe.

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