Moving mail with 'B m' does not update active file

Moving mail with 'B m' does not update active file

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Hello.

I use procmail to split my mail, and nnml as a backend.  

M-x gnus-version gives:
Gnus v5.5; nntp 5.0; nnml 1.0; nndoc 1.0; nnfolder 1.0

The problem is, when I move mail from one mailgroup to another, the
active file is not updated, and the mail is seemlingly lost.  I then
have to update the active file by hand to see the mail again.

M-g on the group doesn't help either. 

Can anyone give a hint as to what I am doing wrong?

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Re: Moving mail with 'B m' does not update active file

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@online.no> writes:

> I use procmail to split my mail, and nnml as a backend.  

[...]

> The problem is, when I move mail from one mailgroup to another, the
> active file is not updated, and the mail is seemlingly lost.

I'm not able to reproduce the bug.  You're not suffering from the
dreaded nnml-with-two-active-files-syndrome, are you?  Do a
"find ~ -name active" (or something) to see whether nnml thinks it
resides in two separate directories.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Moving mail with 'B m' does not update active file

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> The problem is, when I move mail from one mailgroup to another, the
>> active file is not updated, and the mail is seemlingly lost.
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce the bug.  You're not suffering from the
> dreaded nnml-with-two-active-files-syndrome, are you?  Do a "find ~
> -name active" (or something) to see whether nnml thinks it resides
> in two separate directories.

I have two active files, one for nnml, and one for nnfolder (which is
my archive for outgoing mail.)

/home/ssm/Mail/Outgoing/active
/home/ssm/Mail/active

nnml updates the active file (/home/ssm/Mail/active) just fine when
getting mail the normal way, except that the mail I moved is not
visible.  I'm not sure if the moved mail gets overwritten or not, I
could do a test if that would help.

My .gnus.el (or the relevant parts of it, minus header munger and
expire information) is located at http://www.rlyeh.net/~ssm/.gnus.el

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 SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
  Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend

Re: Moving mail with 'B m' does not update active file

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@online.no> writes:

> nnml updates the active file (/home/ssm/Mail/active) just fine when
> getting mail the normal way, except that the mail I moved is not
> visible. 

Does evaluating

(nnmail-save-active nnml-group-alist nnml-active-file)

do anything useful after moving an article to an nnml group?  

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen