Ugh! Ack! Argh! Nggh!

[Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@itchy.serv.net>]

Gnus has really scared me a few times.

Tonight, for example.  I've spent the last four days moving 140MB of old mail
from VM to Gnus nnml folders, writing procmail recipes, and so forth.  I still
haven't transferred my email delivery to the new system (I have over 3000
messages piled up waiting for Gnus to start running smoothly).  And tonight, I
get home to convert the last bit of mail, start up Gnus, and get

	Wrong type argument, integerp

Heart attack.  Complete heart attack.

Yet, the second time I tried it (identical circumstances---both times, I'd
started Emacs afresh), it worked fine.

But I'm a bit shaky now.

Here's another thing that concerned me.  I was dealing with some messages in my
"main" mailbox that I hadn't yet written a procmail recipe for.  I got to a
message, hit B m and moved it to a nnml folder that didn't exist.  Sure enough,
Gnus asked me if I wanted to create it, I said "yes", and the message got moved
and marked "G".

So where's the group?  Ain't there.  I even left Emacs and restarted from the
ground up, and it's not there.  And yet, it's in the ~/Mail directory; just not
in the .newsrc.eld file.  Why not?  And what happens if I create it now?  Will
it erase the old stuff?

The *promise* is that it's going to get a lot better.

Also, one question:  What's a quick way to take an nnml folder and convert it
to an mbox-compliant file so that I can reprocess it with procmail?  Or even a
slow way?

Whee!  The adventure continues.