From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4342 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: losing mail with nnml in 0.18 Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:16:05 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145102 29284 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA31629 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 07:47:26 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 16:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 16:16:06 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: raeburn@cygnus.com's message of 08 Dec 1995 18:32:09 -0800 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4342 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4342 raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes: > A couple days ago I partially finished an rdist of my nnml hierarchy > to another machine. This directory may not have been done, but the > active file was. It had no entry for list.mit.zephyr at all. So my > guess is that nnml-generate... omits empty (but existing) directories, > confusing the code for filing new messages. > > If this is a problem caused by an earlier version, sinced fixed, and > I'm only just noticing it now, feel free to ignore me. Well, > actually, please tell me, so I'll stop worrying about losing more mail > in the future... It's a bug that hasn't been fixed yet. I've been wringing my brain for a few weeks trying to remember just what was wrong with `nnml-generate-nov-databases', but I just couldn't recall what it was. It's annoying being a total amnesiac. -- Home is where the cat is.