Re: gnus reads my mail

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
|
|> / Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai was heard to say:
|> | Does it help to remove the ".marks" file?
|>
|> What .marks file?
|
| The file ~/Mail/group/name/.marks.  Do you have such files?

Aha! The culprit!

In my .newsrc.eld, I find:

  ("nnml:misc" 2 ((1 . 9429)) ...)

and in ~/Mail/misc/.marks:

  ((read (1 . 14321)) ...)

I'm willing to bet that I used to have 14321 messages before I 'B m'd
them to misc to remove a huge range of missing message numbers.

How did they get out of sync? A bug, I suppose...

So, according to the info pages, I can just blow away the .marks file
and it'll get rebuilt. I suppose I could also just disable marks
files. What to do?

1. Disable .marks?
2. Delete all the out-of-sync .marks
   2a. Is there a tool that will compare .newsrc.eld files with .marks?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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