Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail)

Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail)

[Thomas Skogestad]

After several years of living in total darkness, I decided to add some
mail splitting.

Nothing fancy, just something like

(setq nnmail-split-methods
  '(("mail.junk" "^From:.*Thomas Skogestad")
    ("mail.misc" "")))

Now. I sent myself a test mail, restarted Gnus, Gnus complained about
the junk directory not existing. Gnus then (or just before) decided to
garblygook gnarf my mail. It deleted _everything_. Instead of having a
misc dir with lotsa mail, I got an empty junk directory. Is Gnus
supposed to behave this way?

(One is not supposed to RTFM, is one?)

(To preserve my sanity, thankfully there's a backup taken of all my
files saved on a Unix-server -- daily. Thankfully I've been saving all
mail on one of those machines.)

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A. A police officer in San Francisco will dance and have a few drinks
   when he says he's going out "clubbing."
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Re: Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Thomas Skogestad <tskogest@jusstud.uio.no> writes:

> Now. I sent myself a test mail, restarted Gnus, Gnus complained about
> the junk directory not existing. Gnus then (or just before) decided to
> garblygook gnarf my mail. It deleted _everything_.

I don't believe that is possible.  

> Instead of having a misc dir with lotsa mail, I got an empty junk
> directory. Is Gnus supposed to behave this way?

Was the misc dir gone?  Did you, by any chance, hit `C-u G DEL y e s'
by mistake.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail)

[Thomas Skogestad]

* Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

| I don't believe that is possible.  

Well, shit still happens.

| Was the misc dir gone?

Yes, I believe so.

| Did you, by any chance, hit `C-u G DEL y e s' by mistake.

I find that very hard to believe. Do these punches to the keyboard try
to import new mail?

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Re: Expected behavior? (Deleting all mail)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Thomas Skogestad <tskogest@jusstud.uio.no> writes:

> | Did you, by any chance, hit `C-u G DEL y e s' by mistake.
> 
> I find that very hard to believe. Do these punches to the keyboard try
> to import new mail?

Nope.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen