* Number of articles in nnml group
@ 2007-04-05 14:57 Norman Walsh
2007-04-05 17:23 ` David Z Maze
2007-04-06 7:13 ` Didier Verna
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From: Norman Walsh @ 2007-04-05 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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I have a couple of nnml groups for spam, one for caught spam
(misc.spam.dspam) and one for missed spam (misc.spam).
Over the years, there have been tens of thousands of messages in those
folders so, even though I've deleted them all, trying to enter them
always asked me how many messages I wanted to read.
Tired of that, I deleted them (C-u G DEL).
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???
Be seeing you,
norm
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* Re: Number of articles in nnml group
2007-04-05 14:57 Number of articles in nnml group Norman Walsh
@ 2007-04-05 17:23 ` David Z Maze
2007-04-05 17:33 ` Norman Walsh
2007-04-06 7:13 ` Didier Verna
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From: David Z Maze @ 2007-04-05 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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
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* Re: Number of articles in nnml group
2007-04-05 14:57 Number of articles in nnml group Norman Walsh
2007-04-05 17:23 ` David Z Maze
@ 2007-04-06 7:13 ` Didier Verna
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Didier Verna @ 2007-04-06 7:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norman Walsh; +Cc: ding
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of nnml groups for spam, one for caught spam
> (misc.spam.dspam) and one for missed spam (misc.spam).
>
> Over the years, there have been tens of thousands of messages in those
> folders so, even though I've deleted them all, trying to enter them
> always asked me how many messages I wanted to read.
In such cases, you might also want to compact your groups. See
gnus-group-compact-group and gnus-server-compact-server.
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94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 53 14 59 22 didier@xemacs.org
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