Re: Something very wrong here

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>    $ ls -al Mail/prinb
>   total 20
>   drwxrwxr-x    2 reader   reader       4096 Sep  4 08:57 .
>   drwxr-xr-x   96 reader   reader       4096 Sep  4 08:57 ..
>   -rw-r--r--    1 reader   reader         29 Sep  4 08:57 .marks
>   -rw-------    1 reader   reader       4419 Sep  4 08:57 .overview
>
> No messages but as you see, the .overview and marks files contains a
> fare bit of data.

Thanks for the detailed information.  The .overview file should be
empty. (The .marks file looked fine.)  I think the problem is that
`nnml-nov-delete-article' does not do what it should, because the
respool eval form changed some internal state.

Does the following patch make a difference?  The .overview file should
shrink to 0 bytes when you respool all articles.

FWIW I couldn't reproduce it.  I respooled all articles in a nnml
buffer, but the .overview file was empty after that.

If the patch doesn't do anything, maybe you could edebug
`nnml-request-move-article' and `nnml-nov-delete-article' to see that
the article file is really deleted (by `nnmail-delete-file-function')
and that `nnml-nov-delete-article' really removes the article from the
NOV file.  The latter doesn't seem to happen for you, maybe you can
find out why.

--- nnml.el.~6.22.~	Sun Sep  2 11:47:31 2001
+++ nnml.el	Tue Sep  4 21:01:51 2001
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@
      (nnml-request-article article group server)
      (let (nnml-current-directory
 	   nnml-current-group
+	   nnml-nov-buffer-alist
 	   nnml-article-file-alist)
        (save-excursion
 	 (set-buffer buf)
@@ -361,6 +362,7 @@
 	 result))
      (progn
        (nnml-possibly-change-directory group server)
+       (nnmail-activate 'nnml t)
        (condition-case ()
 	   (funcall nnmail-delete-file-function
 		    (nnml-article-to-file  article))