From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45366 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus reads my mail Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:39:54 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87znxksy5x.fsf@nwalsh.com> References: <87ofe4lt0p.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024918938 15010 127.0.0.1 (24 Jun 2002 11:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MSEb-0003tz-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17MSD7-0004i0-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 06:40:45 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 24 Jun 2002 06:41:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA20387 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 06:40:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 25203 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2002 11:40:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25198 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2002 11:40:28 -0000 Original-Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (209.225.8.14) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jun 2002 11:40:28 -0000 Original-Received: from [68.112.234.9] (HELO mercury) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 31425323 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ndw by mercury with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17MSCJ-00010A-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:39:55 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://nwalsh.com/ In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:05:18 +0200") Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45366 / Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai was heard to say: | Norman Walsh 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 -- Norman Walsh | Clearness is so eminently one of the http://nwalsh.com/ | characteristics of truth that often it | even passes for truth itself.--Joubert