From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39505 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: fixed (was Re: how to delete a recalcitrant message in an IMAP mail group?) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:33:34 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175205 28366 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13508 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 21:36:59 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 21:36:59 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15uhHD-0004HZ-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:33:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA16497 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:33:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13458 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2001 21:33:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13453 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 21:33:37 -0000 Original-Received: from euler.math.washington.edu (128.95.224.1) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 21:33:37 -0000 Original-Received: from goedel3.math.washington.edu (goedel3.math.washington.edu [128.95.224.12]) by euler.math.washington.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9JLXaP400728; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from palmieri@localhost) by goedel3.math.washington.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9JLXac442836; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:33:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: goedel3.math.washington.edu: palmieri set sender to palmieri@math.washington.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: ,;upNQ$t/)!L]^R9Po%swv4 (palmieri@math.washington.edu's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:14:05 -0700") Original-Lines: 67 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39505 Well, I think I've fixed my problem. Here's what I did: I hit "C-u RET" to enter the group with as many messages visible as possible. The old message was not visible, but when I hit "P" at the top of the buffer, I got a message like Can't find article 11398 Couldn't go to article 11398 Hitting "P" again gave the same message, but with article number 11397. So I looked at the file, and the one I wanted to get rid of was message 8573, so I hit "P" about 2800 times. Then the message appeared, and I could mark it for expiry, and when I quit the group, the message was deleted from the file. (Of course, hitting "P" 2800 times was annoying, especially since it doesn't use the prefix argument as a count, but I defined "P" to be a keyboard macro, and ran it 2800 times...) I don't know if I could have done this right from the start, or if, say, updating to the most recent CVS helped, but the net result is, I've gotten rid of the damn message. Thanks for all of your suggestions. palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri) writes: > I posted this to gnu.emacs.gnus, and thought maybe I should post here, > too. I'm using > > "Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106" > > updated from cvs yesterday (the most recent entry in the ChangeLog is > 2001-10-06). > > I'm using gnus and nnimap to read my mail, and I'm having a small > problem. Gnus goes to my mail server, gets my mail, and then splits > it into various mail groups, storing the mail from each group in a > file on the local machine. One of those files has a fairly old > message in it, one which should have been expired, but wasn't. When I > enter that group and try to view all the old messages (C-u RET, then > respond appropriately when it asks how many messages I want to > retrieve), it takes a long time to open, and when it does, that old > message is not visible, so I can't mark it for expiry or delete it. > > Can I edit the actual mail file and just delete the offending message? > Can I tell gnus to regenerate some database for that group? How can I > get rid of this message? > > (The relevant mail group happens to be for the gnus mailing list, so > as much as I cherish all of your messages, if I have to delete the > whole thing and start over, it won't be a disaster. I'm not even sure > how to do that the right way, though.) > > -- > J. H. Palmieri > Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieri@math.washington.edu > University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/ > Seattle, WA 98195-4350 > -- J. H. Palmieri Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieri@math.washington.edu University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/ Seattle, WA 98195-4350