From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26951 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: moving last mail from nnmh to nnml fails Date: 16 Nov 1999 13:33:04 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <5b66z3lcm4.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164063 22066 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00570 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:35:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB01759; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:35:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:34:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA14981 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:34:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00555 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:33:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id NAA16509 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:33:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA18071; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:33:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id NAA17793; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:33:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Matt Swift's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:45:10 GMT" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) Emacs/20.4.90 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26951 Matt Swift writes: > Also, I don't understand its default setting of nil (or, indeed, the > reason the variable exists). MH has no trouble dealing with empty > folders. nnmh looks in the directory and uses the next free article number. And Gnus doesn't like it at all if article numbers are reused. Consider: you have marked as read all articles from 1 through 1000. You delete all articles from the group. You put a new article in the group. It gets number 1 (since that's the next free number). The new article will be marked as read! kai -- This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context. -- David Moser