Re: Peculiar treatment of edited messages

[Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu> writes:
> Ted Stern <stern@tera.com> writes:
> > In Pgnus 0.96, Emacs 20.3, I sometimes lose my email after editing my
> > messages.  That is, my cursor sits on a message description in the *Summary*
> > buffer, I hit 'e', and do some changes to the article.  When finished, I hit
> > 'C-c C-c'.  But then Gnus puts a 'G' on the message summary, indicating that
> > it is about to be purged from the group.  When I exit the group and re-enter
> > it using 'C-u SPC', the edited message has disappeared, although other
> > messages are unaffected.
> > 
> > If I use 'more' or some other editor to actually look through the nnfolder
> > corresponding to the nnfolder group, the message is still there.  But Gnus no
> > longer acknowledges this -- how can I get Gnus to re-read all headers in the
> > nnfolder file?
> 
> I've had similar things happen, although if I remember correctly the
> articles actually vanished from the nnfolder file as well, and I had
> to get them from the Incoming directory.  

This happened to me again today, so I can give a bit more info.  I
had point in the *Article* buffer when I hit `e';  not sure if that
is relevant, but it might be.  What happened is that the headers of
the article in my nnfolder file got replaced by just the headers I
have displayed in the *Article* buffer:

> From nobody Sun Oct 24 14:00:54 1999
> From: James McClure <mcclure@math.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Re: operad actions on Tot
> To: jdc@jhu.edu (Dan Christensen)
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:12:58 -0500 (EST)
> In-reply-to: <87ogel9k4o.fsf@chow.mat.jhu.edu>
> Message-id: <199910240213.VAA19485@cauchy.math.purdue.edu>

(I have In-reply-to and Message-id in my gnus-visible-headers.)

Note that the "From " line is incorrect, and the various other
headers that Gnus makes use of (like X-Gnus-Mail-Source, Xref,
and X-Gnus-Article-Number) are all missing.  So as far as Gnus
can tell this article doesn't exist.

Dan