From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59060 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmaildir: everything works, except inbox Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:00:18 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: <87654kwu62.fsf@giorgian.widge.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099678073 25569 80.91.229.6 (5 Nov 2004 18:07:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:07:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7600@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 05 19:07:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQ8Us-0004hH-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:07:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CQ8TH-0001Pc-00; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:05:59 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CQ8TD-0001PX-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:05:55 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CQ8TB-00009C-D4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:05:53 -0600 Original-Received: from mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (mirapoint2.TIS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.104.47]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4673E3A004C for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:05:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.5.4-GR) with SMTP id CPE63202; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:00:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 21987 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 2004 18:00:42 -0000 Original-To: Pietro Giorgianni In-Reply-To: <87654kwu62.fsf@giorgian.widge.org> (Pietro Giorgianni's message of "Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:56:37 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Pietro Giorgianni , Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59060 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59060 Pietro Giorgianni 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