Re: Number of articles in nnml group

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> I quit gnus and looked through .gnus, .newsrc.eld, .gnus.registry.eld,
> ~/Mail/active and couldn't find any reference to them.
>
> But next time messages were put in them, gnus seemed to remember the
> huge number of messages that had been in there (even though message
> numbers started at 1 again).
>
> Where's the old value cached???

Possibly in ~/Mail/misc/spam/.marks?

(If you're hunting around in the nnml tree directly, I've also noticed
cases where there are article files that aren't listed in .overview.
It's probably about three lines of Perl to find them, or I can
nnml-generate-nov-databases, but I don't think it's a huge number of
messages.  I suspect they appear if Emacs dies an unfortunate death
while I'm leaving a group, which has happened occasionally due to
crappy network and what not over the past 9-or-so years.)

  --dzm