Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Shane Holder <holder@rsn.hp.com> writes:

> This is still happening under .80.  I'm "loosing" about 3 articles a
> day.  I would like to debug the problem.  If someone can tell me how
> to get gnus to re-read an Incoming file I might be able to make some
> headway.

There a couple of ways to recycle the Incoming* files:
1) Do `G f' in Group buffer and give the address of Incoming file 
   (Mail/Incoming*what-ever)
2) Do `cat Mail/Incoming* /var/spool/mail/<user-name> To zap them all
   back onto the mail spool.  (assumes root priviledges)

The nicest way: 

3) Do `G m' in group buffer give "Mail" as the address and "nneething"
   as the method.  When you enter the "nneething" group you'll see the
   directory structure in "Mail" the Incoming files will be shown as
   regular messages (i.e. as Subject: lines) You can run them through
   the split routine with `B q' to see where they'd go or `B r' to
   send them there. (choose your regular secondary select backend as
   the method to respool with)  The origs will stay in ~/Mail

Learn more about "nneething" by doing `C-c C-i' from group buffer then
press `s' for regexp search and enter "nneething" (no quotes) as the string.

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