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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: recovering deleted messages
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:44:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9bqafxbck.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl3rxggr.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org>

On Wed, Oct 31 2007, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

> I accidentally deleted some messages.  However, I haven't changed the Gnus
> default for a variable (forget its name now) that causes retrieved mail to
> be kept in a directory (~/News/mail/ in my case) with file names like
> "Incoming22999Nfi".  

`mail-source-delete-incoming' is nil by default in the development
versions of Gnus.

> How can I get some of those messages back in groups?

If you fetch from $MAIL, you may `cat Incoming* >> $MAIL'.  Else you
can probably precede as described in (info "(gnus)Incorporating Old
Mail").

Bye, Reiner.
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2007-10-31 18:54 Sebastian P. Luque
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