Lost mails because of bogus newsrc.eld :/

Lost mails because of bogus newsrc.eld :/

[Samuel Tardieu]

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This mail is for Lars, but maybe some people here will have done the
work already.

Due to some experimentations I made, I ended up with a mail group
whose active highest number was 30 and the highest news number read in
this group was 9000. This made that even while mails were entered into
this group (and active incremented) I didn't see any of them because
September Gnus told me there were none.

Would it be possible for Gnus to warn the user with a message such as:

"Warning, xxx mails read while there is only yyy in group, adjust (Y/n) ?"

This group was not very important and people didn't get too upset that I
didn't answer, but I'm afraid this arrives again with a very critical
workgroup which will make me look like an arrogant people which
doesn't even answers his mail :/

I just noticed this; I've lost 2 weeks of mails in this group
(because the bogus file was created 3 weeks ago and I only keep 1 week
history). This is my fault and only mine, but it would be a good idea
IMHO to warn users about this probable incoherency.

And if it happens to users unaware of the .newsrc.eld/active
structure... this could bring them into deep troubles...

Wouldn't it worth adding this check in the current Gnus release ? (I
mean before 5.2 gets released) 

  Sam
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"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
                                                       Charles Baudelaire

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