Re: Problem with Gnus and duplicate messages.

[Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > > > When I get duplicate messages like announcements from "ding-announce" and
> > > > "ding" Gnus only displays one of them and no matter what I do I can't get
> > > > it to display them all. 
> > > 
> > > That's odd.  What's your `nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable?
> > 
> > warn
> 
> So's mine, but I haven't had Gnus misbehave at all in this area for a
> long time.  You do do (be do do) your mail splitting with Gnus?

Yes, I use Gnus to split my mail when I get it home.

The problem is this:

I copy the file from /usr/spool/mail/ to my home directory and take it
home.

At home I use nndoc to open the file, "M P b" to mark the messages and
"B r" to re-spool with nnml as the backend.

Not all the messages are re-spooled.

I have just started to use SOUP. What I am doing is to read the file
from /usr/spool/mail with nndoc.

When I use "G s b" to brew soup not all the articles are taken. The
duplicates are left.


> > > Only one copy of messages with the same Message-ID will be displayed. 
> > 
> > But when I re-spool only one copy is re-spooled and I can never see both 
> > copies.
> 
> Yes.

I have had to re-spool mail groups to do change the way messages are
filed and also to "pack" groups. As Gnus doesn't show all the messages
in a group, how can I select them all so that they can be re-spooled?

I have had cases where Gnus has re-spooled a incomplete file from an
exmh folder and left the complete version of this message behind. It
then refused to "see" or move this message. I only knew it was there
because I used exmh to check.

If Gnus will not "see" duplicate messages then surely everyone who
moves or re-spools messages is loosing mail.

-- 
Eze Ogwuma