Help ! Gnus keeps adding 4 phantom messages !

Help ! Gnus keeps adding 4 phantom messages !

[Aharon Schkolnik]

Hi all.

Every time I enter emacs and fire-up gnus, it claims that I have 4 new
messages in nnbabyl:mail.etc. When I enter the group, there are no new
messages. There are 65 ticked messages. If I then leave and re-enter
the group, it is o.k. However, if I exit and re-enter emacs, the
problem comes back. Looking at my newsrc.eld file, I see :

 ("nnbabyl:mail.etc" 2 ((1 . 69)) ((tick (1 . 65))) (nnbabyl ""))
                             ^^

When I exit and re-enter emacs, I see:

 ("nnbabyl:mail.etc" 2 ((1 . 73)) ((tick (1 . 65))) (nnbabyl ""))
                             ^^

This goes up by 4 each time.


I have tried setting it to 65 by hand, but the same thing happens.


The same sort of thing happens with the rmail-box.active file.



I do not know if this is relevant, but mail.etc is the default place
for incoming mail:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnbabyl "")))

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(
	("mail.vms-emacs" "^To:.*vms-emacs-testers")
	("mail.vms-emacs" "^Apparently-To:.*vms-emacs-testers")
	("mail.linux-il" "^To:.*Linux-il@")
	("mail.vms-software" "^Subject:.*FILESERV@WKU")
	("mail.vms-software" "^To:.*MadGoat-Announce")
	("mail.vms-software" "^Sender:.*[Mm]ad[Gg]oat")
	("mail.security" "^To:.*[cC][eE][rR][tT]")
	("mail.aruzt7" "^To:.*arutz-7")
	("mail.gnus" "^From:.*ding")
	("mail.gnus" "^To:.*ding")
	("mail.gnus" "^Cc:.*ding")
	("mail.gnus" "^To:.*larsi@ifi.uio.no")
	("mail.gnus" "^From:.*larsi@ifi.uio.no")
	("mail.osf" "^To:.*osf-managers")
	("mail.gel" "^To:.*cygnus")
	("mail.gel" "^From:.*cygnus")
	("mail.gel" "^Cc:.*cygnus")
	("mail.osf" "^From:.*osf-managers")
	("mail.from_me" "^From:.*aharon@.*health.gov.il")
	("mail.matat" "^From:.*YEHAVI")
	("mail.matat" "^From:.*health.gov.il")
	("mail.matat" "^To:.*YEHAVI")
	("mail.etc" "")
	  ^^^^^^^^


	)
      )

(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)


TIA.


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