From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24317 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken McGlothlen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Ugh! Ack! Argh! Nggh! Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161905 8061 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25509 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 03:03:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB27585; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:02:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:02:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA24428 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:02:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25465 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 03:01:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from itchy (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by mx.serv.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA01473; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24317 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24317 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.