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Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Actually this depends on how many articles you have had in a group
> > overall. If nnmh has writes article numbers above 9999 then mh will
> > not see the numbers correctly. It will put a ? into the number scheme.
> > 
> > There was some discussion about re-numbering articles in nnm? groups a
> > while back but I don't remember the outcome.
> 
> So, is there a way to re-number articles in an nnmh group? (from
> within Gnus)  This would be the equivalent of "packing" a folder 
> with MH/nmh.
> 
>   Compacting a Folder
>      The `-pack' switch will compress the message  names  in  the
>      designated  folders,  removing  holes  in message numbering.

I might be wrong but I recall that the only solution was to re-spool
all the articles to another folder then back again. I'm not sure how
this would affect ticked articles.


-- 
Eze Ogwuma