From: dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Subject: Re: bug: wrong number of mails
Date: 23 Apr 1999 13:25:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1biuani70z.fsf@blackbird.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr's message of "23 Apr 1999 18:27:50 +0200"
>>>>> Stefan Waldherr writes:
> swa@amadeus:~> ll Mail/inbox/
[7 mails + .overview; conclude nnml :-)]
> the overview file sez
[looks like what you want]
> Now, upon entering the group, gnus ask me, how many [333] mails I
> want to read?. This number is clearly wrong. So I enter the group,
> mark all 7 of them, and `B m' them to the same group. I leave the
> group, and re-enter. Guess what? gnus now asks me for 340 mails?
> What can I do?
Check the nnml active file. I just had this happen to me when I tried
to copy an nnml group from one system to another (I just tarred up the
directory). I did an F to find the new group, but although it only
had about 20 messages in it I was told there were 340 messages there
(340 was the highest numbered article), and like you experienced,
entering the group and reading the messages did not solve that, nor
did packing the group with B-m. However, running
(nnml-generate-active-info "/home/dsg/.Mail/linux") in the scratch
buffer fixed it for me.
--
Dave Goldberg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-23 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-25 20:12 Stefan Waldherr
1999-03-25 21:49 ` Dave Thomas
1999-03-28 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-28 20:43 ` Stefan Waldherr
1999-04-02 13:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-23 16:27 ` Stefan Waldherr
1999-04-23 17:25 ` David S. Goldberg [this message]
1999-04-23 17:37 ` Stefan Waldherr
1999-04-23 19:17 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-04-12 2:15 ` Matt Simmons
1999-04-12 13:58 ` David S. Goldberg
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