From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33273 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Swainson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Monthly cleanup and a wee POP error Date: 09 Nov 2000 13:06:09 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169412 24292 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:03:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380C9D049A for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:11:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB09123; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:10:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:10:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA07244 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:09:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from relay06.indigo.ie (relay06.indigo.ie [194.125.133.230]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B8D48D049A for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:10:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 33421 messnum 1270980 invoked from network[194.125.156.97/nw156-97.indigo.ie]); 9 Nov 2000 13:10:09 -0000 Original-Received: from nw156-97.indigo.ie (HELO GRIDIRON.clients.ie) (194.125.156.97) by relay06.indigo.ie (qp 33421) with SMTP; 9 Nov 2000 13:10:09 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 50 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33273 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33273 Hi All, I'm using nnml as my (only) select method, and get my mail off a pop server. I'm using Gnus in NTEmacs. When I retrieve mail from pop.indigo.ie, I occasionally get an error about being unable to link messages. Nothing gets sorted into folders. When I try again (using 'g'), the mails previously downloaded gets sorted into folders, and then - as it is still on the server - downloaded again. The problem seems to happen when new mail arrives into the pop mailbox whilst a download is taking place, although I'm not exactly sure about that. It often happens when I am downloading a lot of mail, or downloading a particularly large mail. Could someone tell me if: a. I can prevent this error altogether? or b. Can I prevent the messages from being downloaded again? I've looked into duplicate supression in the manual, but this seems only to deal with messages that have been read already. Gnus does identify the messages as duplicates (there is the warning in the header). Secondly, about once a month I like to get all my nnml folders and zip them up for storage. I do this using Winzip and then delete the original folders for Gnus to recreate. I then use nnml-generate-nov-databases to resync the numbers of the messages so that the total messages count appears correctly in the summary buffer formatted thusly: (setq gnus-group-line-format "%M%S%p%P%(%m [%2y] %-20,20g (%3R) %)%l\n") If I want to then read archived mail, I have to unzip the folder and then point Gnus at it using the nnfolder select method. Hugely tedious, and I'm sure there is a better way. The manual seems to deal with the archiving of the 'Sent' folder only. I'd be very grateful indeed for any help or suggestions. Thanks for your time, Cheers, Ian Swainson -- ~~~~~~~~~~~Made in Ireland using GNU Emacs~~~~~~~~~~~~ Available *free* from: http://www.gnu.org http:/www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html http://www.gnusoftware.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Client Solutions Ltd http://www.clients.ie