From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>
Subject: Re: Gnus+nnml dependent on active file?
Date: 14 Nov 1999 12:32:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkg0y9nfln.fsf@beaver.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jan Rychter's message of "14 Nov 1999 13:22:26 +0100"
Jan Rychter <jwr@icm.edu.pl> writes:
> I was bitten by this several times: why does Gnus (or rather the nnml
> backend in particular) depend so much on the ~/Mail/active file?
> Whenever the filesystem fills up, Gnus is unable to save this file,
> it gets truncated to 0 length...
...
> Doesn't the .newsrc.eld file contain all the necessary information?
No. .newsrc.eld contains information about what articles you have
read. The active file contains information about what articles exist,
read or not.
The short answer is, of course, not to let your filesystem fill up.
Otherwise, it would be nice if the emacs environment provided some
means by which to check filesystem status before trying to write a
file.
I don't believe Gnus even maintains the information about the active
file on an ongoing basis -- Gnus re-reads active whenever Gnus is
processing new incoming mail or expiring messages. So asking for a
general "write out the active file on demand" function isn't possible,
either.
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