From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: nnmaildir: everything works, except inbox
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:00:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xf8yy47.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87654kwu62.fsf@giorgian.widge.org> (Pietro Giorgianni's message of "Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:56:37 +0100")
Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@interfree.it> wrote:
> in the last weeks, the inbox folder worked strangely: selecting inbox
> with no unread messages but with, let's say, 20 old messages, it asked
> me for how many old messages i wanted to read, defaulting to more than
> thousand, and then it showed the old messages.
This is normal, I think. Gnus computes the thousand by subtracting
the smallest article number from the largest.
> few days ago i deleted all messages in inbox, and now, in the group
> buffer, when i get new news, i see: 1545: inbox.
Hm. If the cur directory is empty, and there are no cached articles,
etc., then I don't *think* that should happen. What version of Gnus
is this?
When new messages are delivered to this maildir, do you have any
trouble reading them? Or does the misbehavior only happen when the
maildir is empty?
> i tried deleting ~/Mail/inbox/.nnmaildir/, but without effects.
That will cause article numbers to start over from 1 again. That will
interfere with the cache, the agent, and 'seen marks, which
unfortunately are not stored in backends. Also, deleting .../num
while Gnus is running could be harmful, I'm not sure.
paul
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2004-11-05 8:56 Pietro Giorgianni
2004-11-05 18:00 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-11-06 17:45 ` Pietro Giorgianni
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