mail-source not updating my mail groups?

mail-source not updating my mail groups?

[Jack Vinson]

pgnus 0.74

I seem to be losing mail from my nnml mail groups.  Any messages that are
filed in nnml:* seem to be not appearing in the message count.  The
message doesn't show up when I C-u RET the group.  The only way I can find
them is to 'j' to the message number explicitly.  Even if I unmark the
message and quit the group, the count is reset!  Very odd indeed.

If I gnus-group-edit-group (G E) to look at the group characteristics, it
appears that the message list is not being updated correctly.  For example,
the messages tell me that messages 3195 and 3196 have arrived in my
nnml:misc group.  However, the group parameters is as below.  The .overview
file in that directory has entries for the new messages.  Or does this
simply list the messages that have been seen/replied/expired/etc?  In any
case I can't seem to see my messages.

Interestingly, if I quit and restart AND get new messages all of the
messages seem to reappear.  The Group buffer still lists the message count
of every mail group with a "*".

("nnml:misc" 1
 ((1 . 3189)
  (3191 . 3194))
 ((expire
   (3033 . 3039)
   (3041 . 3069)
   (3071 . 3093)
   (3173 . 3178)
   (3180 . 3184)
   (3186 . 3189)
   (3191 . 3193))
  (reply 3036 3038
	 (3044 . 3045)
	 3060 3063
	 (3071 . 3072)
	 3074 3092 3179 3181 3184 3186 3188 3194)
  (tick
   (2646 . 2650)
   2655 2658 2737 2743 2883 2975 2987 3013 3179))
 (nnml "")
 ((expiry-wait . 14))) 

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Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/
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Re: mail-source not updating my mail groups?

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> I seem to be losing mail from my nnml mail groups.  Any messages that are
> filed in nnml:* seem to be not appearing in the message count.  The
> message doesn't show up when I C-u RET the group.  The only way I can find
> them is to 'j' to the message number explicitly.  Even if I unmark the
> message and quit the group, the count is reset!  Very odd indeed.

See <v1tsocwxw5v.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu>.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.

Re: mail-source not updating my mail groups?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <wkiudsz7p5.fsf@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> 
>>>>>	Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> wrote:

Jack> I seem to be losing mail from my nnml mail groups.  Any messages
Jack> that are filed in nnml:* seem to be not appearing in the message
Jack> count.

Try the following patch. It has been sent to gnus-bug yesterday.

--- mail-source.el~	Wed Jan 27 05:26:35 1999
+++ mail-source.el	Wed Jan 27 10:43:39 1999
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
       (let ((pop3-password password)
 	    (pop3-maildrop user)
 	    (pop3-mailhost server))
-	(if (pop3-movemail mail-source-crash-box)
+	(if (save-current-buffer (pop3-movemail mail-source-crash-box))
 	    (mail-source-callback callback server)
 	  ;; We nix out the password in case the error
 	  ;; was because of a wrong password being given.
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>