From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26813 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Rychter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus+nnml dependent on active file? Date: 14 Nov 1999 13:22:26 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163952 21401 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:32:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29645 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 07:28:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB26885; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 06:28:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 14 Nov 1999 06:26:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA11737 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 06:26:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from kzin.rgstudio.com.pl (root@kzin.rgstudio.com.pl [212.244.108.2]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29640 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 07:26:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from boombastic.rgstudio.com.pl ([212.244.108.3]:59409 "EHLO boombastic.rgstudio.com.pl") by kzin.rgstudio.com.pl with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: (from localhost user: 'jwr', uid#500) by boombastic.rgstudio.com.pl id ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:22:34 +0100 Fake-Sender: jwr@boombastic.rgstudio.com.pl Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.10 #1 Mon Sep 20 11:05:55 CEST 1999 Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26813 I was bitten by this several times: why does Gnus (or rather the nnml backend in particular) depend so much on the ~/Mail/active file? Whenever the filesystem fills up, Gnus is unable to save this file, so it gets truncated to 0 length. Then, even though Gnus has all the information in memory (or so I think), it won't try to write the file again. One then has to recreate it painfully with nnml-generate-nov-databases... Doesn't the .newsrc.eld file contain all the necessary information? If it doesn't, could we please have a function that would write out the ~/Mail/active from memory upon request? Is that possible at all? --J.