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burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton - burtonator) wrote:
> OK.  My machine just crashed when gnus was saving its .newsrc.eld file.
>
> For starters... shouldn't be make this transactional?

Yes, that would be nice.

> My question is... is there a way to have gnus reread and recreate the correct
> .newsrc.eld file from my ~/Mail directory ???

Some of the contents of .newsrc.eld may be duplicated there, depending
on your Gnus version.  Specifically, nnml may have your article marks
stored there.  Group parameters, foreign servers, topic structure,
etc., are gone unless you have a backup, I think.


paul