Recently Gnus has stopped reliably noticing mail dropped into various
IMAP groups by the nnimap-split-rule.  I know that messages have been
put into the groups because I see the "IMAP split moved message ..."
go by in the echo area, but then the group selection buffer comes up
claiming that there is no new mail in these groups.  If I forcibly
select one of these groups (using 'L' to display the full list, for
instance) the mail does not show up either.  The only workaround I
have found is to quit Gnus, restart, and immediately use 'A A' to
reread the "active file".  This apparently has the side effect of
making Gnus actually look at what's on the server, rather than
whereever it's looking; but I then have to poke each group to see
if there are new messages, which is tedious, and it only works right
after Gnus starts. I turned the agent and the cache off, but this did
not help.  Neither does deleting .newsrc.eld.

I say 'recently' because up to about five days ago it was working just
fine.  I have no idea what changed.  Up till today I was using
whichever random CVS snapshot is in the Debian unstable 'gnus' package
right now; today I upgraded to CVS HEAD to see if that would help, but
it didn't.

zw

Oort Gnus v0.08
GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-10-15 on raven, modified by Debian