Disappearing mails

Disappearing mails

[Edvard Majakari]

It seems like at least 0.23 loses mail. So far I've seen 3 mails Qmail
delivered to mailbox, and looking at nnmail-split-history Gnus seems
to have put them to right group. However, there's no sign of those
mails in the group.

Is there a known cure for this ?-)

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Re: Disappearing mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> writes:

> It seems like at least 0.23 loses mail. So far I've seen 3 mails Qmail
> delivered to mailbox, and looking at nnmail-split-history Gnus seems
> to have put them to right group. However, there's no sign of those
> mails in the group.

Huh.  Are the mails really not in the group, or does Gnus just refuse
to display them?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Disappearing mails

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 11 Feb 1998 14:43:05 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

>> It seems like at least 0.23 loses mail. So far I've seen 3 mails Qmail
>> delivered to mailbox, and looking at nnmail-split-history Gnus seems
>> to have put them to right group. However, there's no sign of those
>> mails in the group.

Lars> Huh.  Are the mails really not in the group, or does Gnus just refuse
Lars> to display them?

I sent in a bug report similar to this.  I traced it down to the fact
that it did really exist in my Mail directory, but it had been skipped 
over it in the list of articles when I examined the group using 'G
e'.  It simply didn't show in the summary buffer.

Of course, I also sent in a bug report about gnus total-expiring mail
it shouldn't have and haven't heard back about either report :-)  (not 
that they're related).

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Re: Disappearing mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> I sent in a bug report similar to this.  I traced it down to the fact
> that it did really exist in my Mail directory, but it had been skipped 
> over it in the list of articles when I examined the group using 'G
> e'.  It simply didn't show in the summary buffer.

Were there lines in the .overview file for these mails?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Disappearing mails

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 12:36:22 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

>> I sent in a bug report similar to this.  I traced it down to the fact
>> that it did really exist in my Mail directory, but it had been skipped 
>> over it in the list of articles when I examined the group using 'G
>> e'.  It simply didn't show in the summary buffer.

Lars> Were there lines in the .overview file for these mails?

Yes.
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Re: Disappearing mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Lars> Were there lines in the .overview file for these mails?
> 
> Yes.

Uhm...  Were the Message-ID's duplicated?  (Yes, I'm grasping at
straws here.  :-)

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Disappearing mails

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 20:04:12 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

Lars> Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
Lars> Were there lines in the .overview file for these mails?
>> 
>> Yes.

Lars> Uhm...  Were the Message-ID's duplicated?  (Yes, I'm grasping at
Lars> straws here.  :-)

Umm...  I'd have to wait for it to happen again...  Do you have my bug 
report still?  It has information that should help.  Specifically, it
might be possible to re-create it by hand-editing a group.  But, I'd
like to see my report again before I do it (since I submitted it about 
a month ago, I've forgotten a lot of what I un-earthed).

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Re: Disappearing mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Umm...  I'd have to wait for it to happen again...  Do you have my bug 
> report still?  It has information that should help.  Specifically, it
> might be possible to re-create it by hand-editing a group.  But, I'd
> like to see my report again before I do it (since I submitted it about 
> a month ago, I've forgotten a lot of what I un-earthed).

If it was sent a month ago, I should probably get to it this evening,
since I'm not back to three weeks old bug reports.  :-)  Just 8 more
weeks to go before I sleep.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Disappearing mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

John Twilley <wzg@aqn.pbz> writes:

> Basically, new mail comes in, but unread counters aren't being
> consistently incremented.  It's difficult to track down because it's
> unpredictable but very common.

Do you have the mail backend in `gnus-secondary-select-methods'?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen